Beloved Quotes - Page 33

• . . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Strong, Heart, Love Is

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Fall, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition”, p.292

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• He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Sleep, Heart

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• When you make sex to a person, woman or man, you think it unites you. For a moment it gives you the illusion of unity, and then a vast division suddenly comes in. That's why after every sex act, a frustration, a depression sets in. One feels that one is so far away from the beloved. Sex divides, and when love goes deeper and deeper and unites more and more, there is no need for sex. Your inner energies can meet without sex, and you live in such a unity.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hate, Intelligent

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the rule of law, a revolution of values, a revolution of ideas. We've come a long way, but we still have a distance to go before all of our citizens embrace the idea of a truly interracial democracy, what I like to call the Beloved Community, a nation at peace with itself.

  John Lewis

  Kings, Distance, Beloved Community

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• Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Erotic, Excellence, Desire

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• Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

  Maya Angelou

  Voice, Might, Phenomenal Woman

  Twitter post from May 23, 2014

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• Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fashion, Men, Giving

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

  Brenda Ueland

  Listening, Doe, Talkers

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• We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

  Brenda Ueland

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Friendship, Christian, Blessing

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• Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

  Michael Faraday

  Son, Giving, Should

  Michael Faraday's letter to Auguste de la Rive, 1861.

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• Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

  Pope Pius X

  Children, Reading, Habit

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• Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Running, Memories, Blood

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Return”

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• It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

  Stephen Levine

  Healing, Compassion, Names

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2010). “Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening”, p.7, Anchor

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• The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

  Epictetus

  Compassion, Cities, Brotherhood

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• We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Winning, House

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• We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Jesus, Life Lesson

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• To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.

  John Winthrop

  Soul, Paradise

  John Winthrop, Richard S. Dunn, Laetitia Yeandle (1996). “The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus.  When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus.  They eat his flesh and drink his blood.  They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord.  They taste that the Lord is gracious.  His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full and free to their soul.  They sit under his shadow with great delight. . . . They lean on the Beloved.  They find infinite strength in him for the use of their soul — grace for grace — all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Views, Blood

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• When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

  Jack Ruby

  President, Vices, Has Beens

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• My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.

  Betty Ford

  Country, Husband, Father

  "Former President Ford dies at 93", www.cnn.com. December 27, 2006.

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• In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes of being that we behold, are they not expressions of my Beloved? For there is none save Him. He is smaller than the smallest, and greater than the greatest.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Land, Expression, Water

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• Rest you well, beloved Jesus,
  Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King,
  In the brooding of the Spirit,
  in the darkness of the spring

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Kings, Spring

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