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To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal. ↗

— Don Cupitt

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We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is ‘eternal’ life. ↗

— Don Cupitt

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The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began. ↗

— Geerhardus Vos

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He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves. ↗

— Christopher Hopper

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I've never wanted more, until I met you. ↗

— E.L. James

#fifty-shades-of-grey #love #love

A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

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The greatest spiritual leaders in history have all preached love for others as the basis for all happiness, and never did they accompany such mandates with a list of unlovable actions or deeds. They never said, love everybody except for the gays. Love everybody except for the homeless. Love everybody except for the drug users. Love everybody except for the gang members, or those covered in ink, or the spouse abusers. They didn’t tell us it was okay to love everybody with the exception of the “trailer trash,” those living in poverty, or the illegal immigrants. They didn’t tell us it was okay to love everybody except for our ex-lovers, our lovers’ ex lovers, or our ex-lovers’ lovers. The mandate was pretty damn clear, wasn’t it? Love others. Period. ↗

— Dan Pearce

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Our days and years are strung upon The thread that runs so true. The game of life is played and Lost to love. -Nancy Janes Nancy Janes ↗

— Nancy Janes

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When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing. ↗

— Jefferson Bethke

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I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#inspirational #religious #inspirational