Love Is Quotes - Page 33

• To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

  John Woolman

  Treasure, Universal Love, Quaker

  John Woolman (1837). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman”, p.326

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• Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Two, Curves

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• Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

  Humberto Maturana

  Identity, Grounding, Existence

  "Biology of love". 1996.

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• Only love expands intelligence.  To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

  Humberto Maturana

  Love, Acceptance, Loving Someone

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• Freedom is everything and Love is all the rest

  Richard Bandler

  And Love

  Richard Bandler (2008). “Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation: How to Harness the Power of Hypnosis to Ignite Effortless and Lasting Change”, p.329, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Roaming, Fusion

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• Why should my love be powerless to help another?

  George MacDonald

  Helping, Should, Powerless

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

  Richard Rorty

  Love, Law, Civilization

  Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty (2005). “The Future of Religion”, p.40, Columbia University Press

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• Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed. He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling round the camp; he is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from his smitten side; the rain of his grace is always dropping; the river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Spring, Rain

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.536, CCEL

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• Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Painting, Scenery

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Self-Help”, p.51, Vintage

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• When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

  M. Scott Peck

  Real, Our Love, Facts

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

  M. Scott Peck

  Framework, Too Deep, Understood

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• True love is not for the faint-hearted.

  Jack Kornfield

  True Love Is, Hearted, Faint Hearted

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2014

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• The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wise, Hatred, Foolish

  YouTube Channel "RationalOutlet"/"Bertrand Russell - The Wisest Man", www.youtube.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

  Thomas Merton

  Poverty, Epiphany

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.254, Macmillan

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• Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish.  Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

  Thomas Merton

  Perfection, Our Love, Mature

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.85, Liturgical Press

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• The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

  Amish Tripathi

  Hate, Apathy, Gone

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• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  Jean Renoir

  Love, Art, Father

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• Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Men, People

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.68, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

  D. A. Carson

  Jealous, Wrath, Perfection

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• The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

  John Stott

  Fall, Fire, Flames

  John R. W. Stott (1972). “What Christ thinks of the church: insights from Revelation 2-3”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

  Perry Farrell

  Past, Able, My Past

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• Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

  Armistead Maupin

  Love, Being In Love, Transcendent

  "The loneliest man in Frisco" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hate, Mean, Opposites

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.42, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.

  Steven Pressfield

  Baby, War, Marine

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.68, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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