Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"Love dissolves all boundaries."
Mooji
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"Drop your defenses and let love in."
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"Love is the ultimate truth of existence."
Mooji
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"To care for another person is to help them grow and actualize themselves."
Henri Nouwen
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"Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly."
Henri Nouwen
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"To love fully is to be vulnerable, and vulnerability is both our greatest weakness and strength."
Henri Nouwen
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"The call to love is the most basic spiritual imperative, transcending all doctrine and dogma."
Henri Nouwen
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"We live in a culture that confuses love with possession and care with control."
Henri Nouwen
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"Love requires that we see the other as a sacred being worthy of our deepest respect."
Henri Nouwen
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"We cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not spend time with."
Henri Nouwen
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"We are called to love not because we feel like it, but because love is the fundamental nature of reality."
Henri Nouwen
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"Our task is to become conduits of God's love rather than obstacles to it."
Henri Nouwen
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"Our capacity to forgive is a measure of our capacity to love."
Henri Nouwen
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"We must learn to love the questions themselves."
Richard Rohr
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"Real love never diminishes the other; it always makes them larger."
Richard Rohr
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"Love is the only reality; everything else is illusion."
Richard Rohr
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"Love without boundaries is the fruit of true spirituality."
Richard Rohr
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"Love is the only language God speaks."
Richard Rohr
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"We are not here to learn lessons but to become love."
Richard Rohr
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"Love is the only theology that matters."
Richard Rohr
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"Love expands the circle; fear contracts it."
Richard Rohr
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"We are loved into being and loved through becoming."
Richard Rohr
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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another."
Thomas Merton
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"Love demands a sacrifice of self but that sacrifice liberates."
Thomas Merton
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"The purpose of life is not happiness but the deepening of love."
Thomas Merton
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"True love is something much deeper than mere human affection."
Thomas Merton
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"We cannot truly love others until we have learned to love ourselves rightly."
Thomas Merton
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"Love is the only force that can transform the human heart."
Thomas Merton
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"Truth spoken without love becomes a sword that wounds rather than heals."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"Obedience freely given is an act of love; obedience forced is mere compliance."
Dominic de Guzmán