Pain and love…
Pain and Love are almost synonymous words.
–Saint Lydwine of Schiedam (1380-1433)
With the love of God…
With the love of God, people will be able to accept and endure whatever happens to them. They will gently forget the harm that is done to them. There is nothing else in human experience that will bring you as close to God or form a more certain bond.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Find ourselves in love…
Let us find ourselves… in love; root ourselves in it like trees, build ourselves on it as a firm foundation founded on love for God which makes us his mansion and his temple in which he dwells; let us, rooted in love for our neighbor which makes us fruitful, give forth leaves of help and fruit of sustenance. Those who are thus founded and rooted can, to a certain extent, understand what is the length and breadth and depth and height of love. Its breadth extends to our enemies; its length perseveres to the end; its height makes it all powerful, and its depth makes us attribute nothing to ourselves but all to the love God bears for us.
–Francisco de Osuna (1497-1541)
Frequent acts of love…
The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
The beginning of love…
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Love unites the soul…
Love unites the soul with God, and, the more degrees of love the soul has, the more profoundly does it enter into God and the more is it centered in Him.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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