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 Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.  Above all things have devoted love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. - Bible Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. Because God is love, the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you. Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower. There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love. Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Give all to love; obey thy heart. Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness. Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues. Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another. To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here. The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. - Bible Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. - Bible We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way. Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. All wise people say the same thing; that you are deserving of love, and that it's all here now, everything you need. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. Speak to me of love, said St Francis to the almond tree, and the tree blossomed. Faith is the continuation of reason. Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. - Bible Faith is the force of life. I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. 
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