Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Nothing is sweeter than love; nothing higher, nothing stronger, nothing larger, nothing more joyful, nothing fuller, nothing better in heaven or on earth; for love descends from God, and may not finally rest in anything lower than God. One with such love flies high; he runs swiftly, he is merry in God, he is free in soul. He gives all for all, and has all in all, for he rests in one high Goodness above all things, from whom all goodness flows.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
–Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Whenever we think of Christ we should recall the love that led him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of his love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love him. For if at some time the Lord should grant us the grace of impressing his love on our hearts, all will become easy for us and we shall accomplish great things quickly and without effort.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Charity, Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man’s entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
–Saint Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)
Love, Page: Quotes
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for “God is Charity.”
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Love with all the powers of your soul this God who is infinitely adorable and his divine Son who wanted to be crucified in reparation for our sins. May his beneficial thought never be absent from your spirit.
–Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253)
