Quotes About Love

The law is neither more nor less than an elucidation of the demands of love.

Mysteriously, God in his providence must make use of our tragedies to remind our fallen human nature of his presence and his love, of the constancy of his concern and care for us. It is not vindictiveness on his part; he does not send us tragedies to punish us for having so long forgotten him. The failing is on our part.

Through the long years of isolation and suffering, God had led me to an understanding of life and his love that only those who have experienced it can fathom. He had stripped away from me many of the external consolations, physical and religious, that men rely on and had left me with a core of seemingly simple truths to guide me. And yet what a profound difference they had made in my life, what strength they gave me, what courage to go on!

Faith is inseparable from love; out of these two twins hope is born.

And each one of us drives love from our lives, drives the longing, the desire for happiness and peace from our lives, each time we run from generosity. There is no love, there is no peace, there is no joy without him. He and he alone is our reward exceedingly great; no physical comfort, no thing, no person can ever truly fill our lives.

In failure or in success, in health or sickness, in sorrow or joy, man must turn to God, must trust in God, believing in him more each day, loving him more each day, in preparation for a future life with him.

Durante esos largos de años de soledad y sufrimiento, Dios me condujo a una comprensión de la vida y de su amor que solo quienes la han experimentado son capaces de entender. Me despojó de muchos de los consuelos externos, físicos y religiosos, en los que se apoya el hombre y me dejó como única guía un núcleo esencial de verdades aparentemente simples.

I am speaking only of a conversation with God, the spontaneous outpouring of a soul that has come to realize—however fleetingly—that it is standing at the knee of a loving and providing Father.

Great gifts received from God—such as love of him, deep faith, or martyrdom—are given irrespectively of our merits, efforts, cooperation, sufferings, determination. They are free gifts (supernatural) bestowed upon those whom God chooses. The disposition will follow if God chooses.

Podía aceptar los trabajos y sufrimientos de cada día como venidos de las manos de Dios y ofrecérselos no solo por él, sino por todos los que lo rodeaban. La función del sacerdote consiste en ofrecer esas cosas a Dios por el prójimo y servir de ejemplo, de testigo, de mártir, de testimonio de la providencia y de los fines de Dios ante los hombres que lo rodean.

To me, it says that God has a special purpose, a special love, a special providence for all those he has created. God cares for each of us individually, watches over us, provides for us. The circumstances of each day of our lives, of every moment of every day, are provided for us by him.

I learned there the lesson which would keep me going in the years to come: religion, prayer, and love of God do not change reality, but they give it a new meaning.

Here's Daljit, Aristide's former lady-love: "Do you still have that horrible cat?" "Yes, said Bitsy. "He does." "I didn't know you were here," Daljit said weakly. "I lurk," said the cat. Bitsy is not a cat-like creature to fuck around. Of one of her fellow-AIs, she says: "I'd kick Aloysius' ass. That AI always gets my goat.

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless nights of harrowing concern for others have longed for it. The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die." (The Faith of a Heretic)

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

We're tenting tonight on the old campground,Give us a song to cheerOur weary hearts, a song of homeAnd friends we love so dear.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

The birds on the branches, the lilies in the field, the deer in the forest, the fishes in the sea, countless hosts of happy men, exultantly proclaim: God is love. But underneath all these sopranos, supporting them as it were, as the bass part does, is audible the de profundis which issues from the sacrificed one: God is love.

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.

There are worse things in life than dragons. Falling in love, for instance.