Love not there! Beware…
Whatever the program, for whatever purpose or cause, if love is not there, then beware. Without love there can be temporary successes, but with time they crumble.
–Saint John XXIII (1881-1963)
The marriage bed…
Let there be one home, one table, a shared wealth, one bed, and one soul for you, and make room for the fear of the Lord in your midst. Fear of the Lord is the ornament of the marriage bed; the marriage bed that is devoid of it will be judged cursed and unclean by the Lord.
–Elizabeth of Schönau (1129-1165)
God cares not…
God cares not for your works, when He is deprived of your heart and love.
–Johannes Tauler OP (1300–1361)
A characteristic of true….
How beautiful it is that the second human being was taken from the side of the first, so that nature might teach that human beings are equal and, as it were, collateral, and that there is in human affairs neither a superior or an inferior, a characteristic of true friendship.
–Saint Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)
Love and humility…
An elder replied, ‘I tell you, many have ruined their bodies with no discernment and gone away without finding anything. We may have evil-smelling breath because of our fasting, we may know the Scriptures by heart, we may recite all the psalms. . . and still lack what God is looking for—love and humility.”
–The Desert Fathers
The madness of love…
The madness of love is a blessed fate; and if we understood this,
we would seek no other. It brings into unity what was divided.
And this is the truth: it makes bitterness sweet, it makes the stranger a neighbor, and what was lowly it raises on high.
–Hadewijch (c.1150-1200)
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