Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love its self, the very love; and that what I call the other unnatural loves, are not loves at all in their own right but become so only so far as they participate in the very love.
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Related The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God lov... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR They understood the theology of their bodies, ... The call to love as God loves is stamped right in... CHRISTOPHER WEST God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of ho... W. H. AUDEN The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be... C.S. LEWIS Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but f... JAMES BURTSCHAELL We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become ... C.S. LEWIS How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy l... FIONA APPLE Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b... BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX ENDURANCE I don't know you, But I love you, Just as God loves me and you. ... SUZY KASSEM I feel sorry and for the both characters the drama for the girl, which was unknown was one very big,... DEYTH BANGER Near, so very near to God,
Nearer I cannot be;
For in the person of his Son
I am as near... CATESBY PAGET The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, witho... EUGENE A. NIDA We must face the recognition that what the early Christians saw in Jesus Christ, and what we must ac... H. RICHARD NIEBUHR Love under the stars... they seem very far, but you are so close the star I love the most. DHARM BABU A lot of comedians out there are aspiring actors, but Dave Attell is a comedian who loves doing come... LAURA GARRISON Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. SIMONE WEIL There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of ... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all. THOMAS HARDY You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And ri... AL FRANKEN When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are man... ROSAMUND LUPTON I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I never see you again, and I will l... LEMONY SNICKET The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by ... C.S. LEWIS I will love you with no regard to the actions of our enemies or the jealousies of actors. I will lov... LEMONY SNICKET Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can onl... MAX MULLER I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to dr... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE She said, ‘You know that I love you.’ And, despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true: the ot... NEIL GAIMAN Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a tru... CECELIA AHERN Self-love is the source of all our other loves. PIERRE CORNEILLE When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, ... C.S. LEWIS God loves you right where you are but he doesn't want to leave you there. MAX LUCADO If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die. JOHN DONNE I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and a... LEMONY SNICKET All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good thi... JOHN LUBBOCK If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and ene... SHARON SWAN The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ... HENRI NOUWEN Let people love you. Don't turn away love. People are sometimes so familiar with not being loved, th... RUSSELL JOSEPH LEDET Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth-... SUSAN COOPER We are what we love, not what loves us. CHARLIE KAUFMAN You are what you love, not what loves you. CHARLIE KAUFMAN You are what you love. Not what loves you. CHARLIE KAUFMAN There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people i... E.A. BUCCHIANERI If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. JOHN DONNE You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother ... NEIL GAIMAN If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a... ERICH FROMM The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,... FRANCIS QUARLES The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble ... C.S. LEWIS May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER How could you love us being together?" he asked me "We are nothing alike and we are not meant for ea... C. JOYBELL C. That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series. DEYTH BANGER Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none... JOHN DONNE The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beaut... TED DEKKER Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means takin... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA There are always little aches and pains but as long as I pace myself I should be OK. As for the ankl... MARTINA HINGIS When you choose to love as God loves, it will never be safe....but it will set you free. JANET LARSON It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard o... MARILYNNE ROBINSON But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very na... RAINER MARIA RILKE We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... FREDERICK BUECHNER I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, ... LEMONY SNICKET What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women... LAURA DERN Because I think she loves you more than she loves sex. And you love her more than you love alcohol, ... KRISTA RITCHIE It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love some... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Love does not inquire into the character of the recipient but it asks what he needs. It does not lov... EMIL BRUNNER Lucius needs you. He mourns you. He loves you. It's very unusual for a vampire to truly love. Some h... BETH FANTASKEY You’re weird.” “I know.” I lifted my head so my chin rested on his chest. “But you love me... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT No sooner do we believe that God loves us than there is an impulse to believe that He does so, not b... C.S. LEWIS Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; ne... ANONYMOUS I love you in my very own way. Like a stone loves the mosses around it Like a sea loves th... ARZUM UZUN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to lear... PETER S. BEAGLE Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
Wit... JOHN LOCKE God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you. YOLANDA ADAMS But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, h... ALAN PATON Real family loves you for you. Real friends love you for all that you are. The streets will love you... TROY GATHERS I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat... LEMONY SNICKET God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it i... C.S. LEWIS Because you might just get there and turn around and want to leave again. I'm not going to ping-pong... BUT APRIL I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there ... BUT BURNETT Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall. BUT BURNETT Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s... BUT APRIL Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy. BUT APRIL When you are betrayed in your first love; all the latter loves seem suspicious. M.F. MOONZAJER Not only are they very good offensive, but they are just as good defensively. This is the best team ... CURT REED When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest bette... C.S. LEWIS ...the difference between me and her is that she loves being smart, and I love learning, and those a... BRYNNA GABRIELSON Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c... WOODROW WILSON Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c... CHARLES DICKENS There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse ... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves... DON RICKLES To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than m... C.S. LEWIS Petty deviance is encouraged JKRAK The wise loves to give,but the fool gives to love. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly... ELIF SHAFAK Right now, I'd say John Jay is as good a team as we've seen so far. They are very, very good. BOB STREETEN Whoever loves, if he do not propose the right true end of love, he's one that goes to sea for nothin... JOHN DONNE
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LEWIS Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ... C.S. LEWIS Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av... C.S. LEWIS We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and... C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t... C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am... C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi... C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire. C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh... C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w... C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of... C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ... C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th... C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind... C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ... C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov... C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus... C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y... C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t... C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give... C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he... C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m... C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that... C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan... C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are... C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos... C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods. C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu... C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis... C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ... C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither. C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ... C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib... C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t... C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b... C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre... C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic... C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ... C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric... C.S. LEWIS We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walk... C.S. LEWIS