"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are
traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!"
Henri Frederic Amiel
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
Janos Arany,(1817-1882) Hungarian poet
"Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity
that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-
political human forces."
Hannah Arendt
"It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves
us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble,
but hidden from the proud...."
Augustine of Hippo
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us,
they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
Honoré de Balzac
"Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and
its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures
only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation."
Honoré de Balzac
"Take away love
and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning
"It
is better to have loved and
lost
than never to have lost at all."
Samuel
Butler (1835-1902)
"The love of God in all other
things, in comparison of the love of God in Christ revealed in the gospel, is as a little spark of fire in
comparison of the heat in a furnace."
Jeremiah Burroughs, (1599-1646), Gospel
Conversation, p.75
"Love is an
electric blanket with somebody
else in control of the switch."
Cathy Carlyle
"War
will never yield but to the principles of
universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the
religion of Jesus Christ."
William
Ellery Channing, Lecture on War (sec. II)
"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."
Colley Cibber, 1671 - 1757
"Choose a job you
love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius
(551 BC - 479 BC)
"The original
concept
of charity as an expression of love, now appears to have been largely
replaced by a concept of government-guaranteed security.... [But] how
can charity - the love of a person for his fellow
men - ever be
connected with force and compulsion in any form? Are not these two
concepts - the voluntary law of love of person for
person, and the
compulsory law of force of person against person - irreconcilable in
all respects?"
Rev.
Russell J. Clinchy, 'Charity: Biblical and
Political' in Essays on
Liberty [1952]
"A love of liberty is planted by nature in the breasts of
all men."
Dionysius
of Halicarnassus, Antiquities of Rome [circa 20 B.C.]
"If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every
living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up."
Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821-81 Russian novelist The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80) bk. 2, ch. 6
"You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an
atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work."
Thomas Dreier
"You will find as
you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived,
are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love."
Henry
Drummond
"God loves us the
way we are, but too much to leave us that way."
Leighton Ford
"Dost
thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is
made of."
Benjamin
Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac [1746]
"Beer
is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
Benjamin
Franklin
"Love is an act of
faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
Erich Fromm
"(Patriotism)
is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for
people other than your own comes first."
Charles de Gaulle
"Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."
David Lloyd George
"[President Bush's] compassionate conservatism [involves] a core faith that not only can
the government love you, but it should spend money to prove its love. Beyond that, there
seems to be no core set of principles that define Bush's approach."
Jonah Goldberg
"I love everything that's old,- old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer, act i.
"The love of liberty
is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
William Hazlitt,
(1778-1830)
"Money is good,
love is wealth."
Doug Horton
"The
greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor
Hugo
"The
most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times
almost insupportable."
Victor Hugo
"I
met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was
old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed
through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul."
Victor
Hugo
"Do you want me to
tell you something really subversive? Love is
everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical
about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking
everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you
risk even more."
Erica Jong
"Those
who never retract
their
opinions love themselves more than they
love truth."
Joseph Joubert
"Love is the first comforter, and where
love and
truth speak, the love
will be felt where the truth is never perceived. Love indeed is the
highest in all truth; and the pressure of a hand, a kiss, the caress of
a child, will do more to save sometimes than the wisest argument, even
rightly understood. Love alone is wisdom,
love alone is power; and
where love seems to faint it is where self has stepped between and
dulled the potency of its rays."
George MacDonald
"Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually seeks to
cultivate it, even at the risk of separation or loss."
Scott Peck, from The Road Less Traveled
"I desired as many as
could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore
the
spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in
America."
John
Wesley, Journal, Aug 1, 1777
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love."
Thornton Wilder
"The best portion
of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and love."
William
Wordsworth
