Quotes About Love

18 «Nell'esperienza di un grande amore tutto ciò che accade diventa un avvenimento nel suo ambito» (R. Guardini, L'essenza del Cristianesimo, Morcelliana, Brescia 1980, p. 12). 19 «La vita dell'uomo consiste nell'affetto che principalmente lo sostiene e nel quale trova la sua più grande soddisfazione» (cfr. san Tommaso, Summa Theologiae, II IIae, q. 179, a. 1).

Al ritiro dei novizi hai dato una definizione bellissima di grazia: «Grazia, o amore, o misericordia, sono tre versioni dei salmi. La coerenza è una grazia, e se è una grazia è una festa. Perché la grazia significa che tu ti trovi sul tavolo un dono, un augurio: è la tua festa. Questa è ogni istante del vivere cristiano. Può essere ogni ora del vivere cristiano, è la tua festa. Il tempo ci è dato per questa festa».

Luigi Giussani

Non è una «cosa» la grazia, la grazia è una presenza;

my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Big Angel had never noticed his mother's endowment before. Suddenly, she seemed to be blessed with an expanse of pillowy flesh. And she tucked the parrot into that cleavage, adjusting herself as it sank from view, finishing the operation by using her thumb on its head to get it well positioned in the shadows. She adjusted her bust and said, "Let's go to San Diego, boys!

Big Angel was late to his own mother's funeral.

Big Angel didn't speak, just beamed like some small lighthouse.

Julian wore his favorite good-luck red-striped soccer jersey. He was planning to make money to build cement walls for his mother's house. He was recently married, and he and his wife were expecting a child that October. His father said Julian had promised to "always behave with respect," and that he would do nothing to cost his father his feelings of pride. He had a note from his bridge in his pocket.

put aside hatred and take up love" (356)

Everybody loves Jesus Christ, they just don't know what to do with Jesus Garcia.

How come,' Big Angel said, 'we never kissed?' 'Kissed?' 'Don't families kiss?' 'Like, brothers? Kissing?' 'Why not?' They pondered the new possibility.

Do gringos kiss?' Big Angel asked. 'Some,' Little Angel said. 'I know guys. Kiss their dads.' 'Everybody kisses moms, though.' 'Kissing moms doesn't count. It's required.' 'Right, right. If you don't kiss your mom, forget it, man.' 'Right? You don't get to heaven if you don't kiss your mom.

They call me Keychain," Neala said. "That's interesting," Little Angel replied. "On account of my teeth's crooked and they say I could open a beer bottle with my mouth, like a can opener." Little Angel stood there for a moment. He felt inexplicable love for these two waifs.

Forty-five minutes of embraces and ostentatious arrivals and all the siblings arranging themselves in the front row and the rings of descendants, like shock waves of a meteor strike, radiating back through the room. Paz

The elder members of the family never failed to marvel at the attitude of the kids, how Big Angel was a rolling laugh riot to them, arbiter of bad jokes, spiritual insight, ice cream money, and shelter when they were bounced out of their houses or were let out of jail or rehab or needed to come in off the streets at midnight.

P.S. Do no violence. Kill no one.

She reached for him, Cruz Chavez, the only man who had ever pressed his face against her and listened to her heart.

Y es que el amor -lo que se dice amor- / llega muy pocas veces, aunque se obstinen tantos / en convertir el aureus en moneda corriente...

For me, it was a film about passion, l'amour fou, the irresistible force that thrusts two people together, and about the impossibility of their ever becoming one.

No es el amor quien muere, Somos nosotros mismos.

O homem não é o único animal que alimenta e cuida de suas crias. Mas é o único que depois usa isso para fazer chantagem emocional

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

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