#love

Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back. ↗

— David Wong

#love

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#love

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life perhaps even to mystical prayer, and to pass the fruits of your contemplation on to others. And if you cannot do so by word, then by example. Yet if this sublime fire of infused love burns in your soul, it will inevitably send forth throughout the Church and the world an influence more tremendous than could be estimated by the radius reached by words or by example. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#faith #love #perfection #prayer #faith

... In the end - when all else is dust - loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith - true faith - was trusting in that love. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#faith #love #loyalty #death

What are you doing right now that requires faith? ↗

— Francis Chan

#faith

Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#love #reason #the-mind #love

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love, ↗

— Buddha

#self-improvement #wisdom #love

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower. ↗