more quotations and passages on love

Love and compassion are
necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity
cannot survive.

Love is a short word but it contains everything.

unknown

Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique
by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure,
on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with
or in response to God in relation to persons.

Eugene H. Peterson

In all honesty, I may
die of my illness, and
I know that. But the most important thing to me is
to leave something positive
from it behind. Living,
dying, physical healing,
and non-physical healing
are not the issue. The
ultimate goal for me is
to walk and live in the
fullness of God’s love,
in such a way that it may
be a healing for all.
To live is to love--nothing
more and nothing less.
I finally learned this.

Susan (a cancer patient)

Love will find a way.
Indifference will find an excuse.

unknown

Where there is great love
there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because
our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we
become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens.
Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look
confidently at the world. We turn inward and begin to feed upon
our own personalities, and little by little we destroy ourselves.
With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and
with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

Chief Dan George

We are here to love, not to judge. I’d been blaming and raging. I certainly
wasn’t loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me.
God’s love doesn’t insist on perfection or even good common sense.
Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change
in perspective I began to see the need for correction
wasn’t in my daughter, but in me.

Susan L. Taylor

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough,
money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go; first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.

Mother Teresa

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

Saying “Yes!” to God’s gift of love and life primarily and above all
means choosing love as a life principle. However, saying “Yes!” to God
is not a simple matter because making our lives into lives of love is not
a simple or easy thing. To choose love as a life principle means that
my basic mind-set or questions must be: What is the loving thing to be,
to do, to say? My consistent response to each of life’s events, to each
person who enters and touches my life, to each demand on my time and
nerves and heart, must somehow be transformed into an act of love.
However, in the last analysis, it is this “Yes!” that opens me to God.
Choosing love as a life principle widens the chalice of my soul, so that
God can pour into me his gifts and graces and powers.

John Powell

A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life.
In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled
with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world,
and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented
to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find
our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like
the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.

John Powell

God, teach us to love without wanting to control; to love without limit;
to love you, our friends, and also our enemies. Teach us to be patient
in love when love is not returned; teach us to be patient when
even you are apparently far away. Teach us loving, waiting, patience when
there is no answer to our questionings and our doubt.

Michael Hollings and Etta Gullick

After you have been kind, after love has stolen forth into the world
and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say
nothing about it. Love hides even from itself. Love waives even
self-satisfaction. “Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.”

Henry Drummond

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Love is not blind—it sees more, not less.
But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Julius Gordon

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
I am not sure if you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence
is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech,
and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

George Eliot

When success comes in the door, it seems,
love often goes out the window.

Joyce Brothers

The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are
arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the
water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you
put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

Merle Shain

Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world
with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote
for a day. You'll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than
your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned: Those who look on the world
with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.

Bernie Siegel

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love:
the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time.
The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way
to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way
to keep love is to give it wings.

Brian Dyson

A pious man came in lamentation to the great Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer.
His son had forsaken the religion of his people and the man was
grief-stricken. "What shall I do, Rabbi?" cried the father. "Do you love
your son?" the Rabbi asked. "Of course I do," said the man.
"Then, said the Rabbi, "love him even more."

traditional Chassidic Jewish story

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.

Mother Teresa

Where there is no love, pour love in,
and you will draw out love.

Juan de la Cruz