"The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others."
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"Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again."
"What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God."
"Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful."
"Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person."
"Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty."
"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."
"Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange."
"Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all."
"Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear."
"Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power"
"Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion."
"Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible."
"The opposite of love is fear, not hate."
"Love is the essence of God."
"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
"Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live."
"The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action."
"No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me."
"Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon."