Category: love
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Love peace
“Instead of loving what you think is peace, love other (people) and love God above all,” said Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer and mystic. “And, instead of hating the people you think are war makers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace,…
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Something that needs love
“Perhaps, everything terrible is in its deepest being something that needs our love,” Rainer Maria Rike once said. I found this quote recently at Barnes & Nobles in a book called Quotes That Will Change Your Life by Russ Kick. –Joy
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What kindness creates
I just received a beautiful card from my friend Ranna, and it has a Lao Tse quote that I want to share. “Kindness in words creates confidence,” Lao Tse once said. “Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” –Joy
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The opposite of love
Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born American Jewish writer, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, died on July 2. But he lives on through his words and his deeds. “The opposite of love is not hate,” he once said. “It’s indifference.” He also said: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.…
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Don’t think too much
“The important thing is not to think much, but to love much and so to do what best awakens us to love,” St. Teresa of Avila once said. I found this quote recently at Barnes & Nobles in a book called Quotes That Will Change Your Life by Russ Kick. –Joy
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Only love
We have been thinking about love and hate since five police officers were killed one night recently in Dallas, which is our home. And, we really like this quote from Martin Luther King Jr. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness,” Dr. King once said. “Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love…