The work of love…
For as heat makes things expand, so it is the work of love to expand the heart, for its power is to heat and make fervent.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Love is the reason for my…
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Our actions of love…
The stirring of leaves in the wind makes the wind visible. Their stirring is the wind’s stirring, their whisper is the wind’s whisper. And so with love. Our actions of love make the invisible visible. Our actions of love make love present to ourselves and to others.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Mystics speak the…
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Love is a…
Love is a good disposition of the soul by which one prefers no being to the knowledge of God.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
The power of a soul given…
I believe that if we are to meet so many needs in the world, we must become a living and continual prayer and love much. The power of a soul given wholly to love is great indeed.
–Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906)
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