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Love: Quotations from Burning Words
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.— MADAME DE STAËL
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.— ST. AUGUSTINE
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, for Himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God, for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours.— JEREMY TAYLOR
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. Love is a passion— PETRARCH,
Which kindles honor into noble acts.— DRYDEN
Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love on trial; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battle-field; meekness is love at school; and temperance is love in training. Humble love, And not proud reason, keeps the door of heaven ; Love finds admission, where proud science fails.— YOUNG
Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the music of a loving heart. Love reflects the thing beloved.— TENNYSON
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life. Heaven's harmony is universal love.— GEORGE ELIOT
- Of the systems above us, angelic and seraphic, we know little; but we see one law, simple, efficient, and comprehensive as that of gravitation, the law of love, - extending its sway over the whole of God's dominions, living where He lives, embracing every moral movement in its universal authority, and producing the same harmony, where it is obeyed as we observe in the movements of nature.— MARK HOPKINS
The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.— J. G. HOLLAND
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.— J. G. HOLLAND
The incarnation of God in Christ reveals this truth, that the love that seeks and saves the lost is a love that suffers. On the one side there is loss, Gethsemane and the rugged burden of Golgotha, but on the other is gain, the gain of a world's redemption.— WESLEY R. DAVIS
If there is any thing that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.— N. P. WILLIS
Love would master self; and having made the mastery stretch onward and upward toward infinitude.— DONALD G. MITCHELL
Learn the new commandment of the Son of God. Not to love merely, but to love as He loved. Go forth in this spirit to your life-duties; go forth, - children of the cross, to carry every thing before you, and win victories for God by the conquering power of a love like His.— F. W. ROBERTSON
Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!— LONGFELLOW
The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.— J. G. HOLLAND
Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.— D. M. CRAIK
I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.— RICHARD CECIL