In need of quotes or verses - help please

[franciscanheart]

I am in need of quotes or verses concerning love.

example: Love is to step beyond your comfort zone.

please help. thanks.

[photosynthesis]

there's a song about love on the Massmatics CD..

I think St Josemaria once said, "The only real love is God's Love!"

[sweetpea316]

Do you want any kind of them? If so, [url="http://www.1-love-quotes.com/"]here[/url] is a pretty good site... or [url="http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/lovequotes.shtml"]here.[/url] Or [url="http://www.cute-quote.com/love/quotes_of_love_001.htm"]here.[/url] Or basically, just search Yahoo or Google for "love quotes" and you will find countless links.

[franciscanheart]

okay thanks sweetpea!

any personal favs?

[Lil Red]

But I say unto you: Deeds of love are worth as much as all the commandments of the Law. -The Torah

Love appears everyday for one who offers love. That is wisdom enough. -Hadewijch of Antwerp

Holding a rosary is a physical tangible act - you touch and hold the small, smooth beads a while and then let go. "Do not cling to me," Jesus had said to Mary Magdalene. The great secret. To hold on, let go. Nothing is solid, everything moves. Except love - hold on to love. Do what love requires. - Helen Prejean

Even if Jesus lays on us some part of the Cross, He is there to help us bear it with self-sacrifice and love. - Blessed John XXIII

By loving the unlovable, You made me lovable. - St. Augustine

When we come to Confession out of brokenness and openness, we discover again the love of God. - Calvin Miller

[Lil Red]

Faith promises. Hope carries. Love gives. Even in our darkest hour, when meaning seems lost, on behalf of our own heart's desire, faith still fights. Hope still holds. Love still lives. - Suzette Boulais

The reason for loving God is God. - St. Bernard of Clairveaux

It is up to you to make God's merciful love visible: a love which welcomes and reconciles, which forgives and renews the hearts of believers, drawing into a consoling embrace every man and every woman. - Pope John Paul II

Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. - St. Francis de Sales

When The
Power of Love
Overcomes The
Love of Power
The World Will
Know Peace
-anonymous

[Carrie]

And not a moment too soon, without a minute to spare
You touched my heart when I didn't have a prayer
In my darkest hour with my world filled with gloom
Your sweet love saved me not a moment too soon

-Tim McGraw

[Lil Red]

The important thing is not to think much but to love much. So do that which bestirs you to love. -St. Teresa of Avila

[Carrie]

To love at all is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. Lewis

[philothea]

My signature.

From the Song of Songs (near the end, I can find the exact verse #s if you want.)

[sweetpea316]

I love love.

-me

[Lil Red]

If I am aware that I do not love enough, the way is not to try to love more, but to spend more time trying to open myself to receive the love of God. -Damaris Parker-Rhodes

[Lil Red]

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." - Charlie Brown

[franciscanheart]

thanks yall!

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='Oct 10 2005, 03:57 PM']"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." - Charlie Brown
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amen!!

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

"Yet readiness to do good to someone who hates us is a characteristic of perfect love alone."
St. Maximus the Confessor, [i]Centuries on Charity[/i]

"Therefore we ought to love one another warmly, for he who loves his neighbor loves God, and he who loves God loves his own soul."
St. Anthony, [i]letter[/i]

"When the heart has no love of itself, it will be forever aroused to love you alone!"
St. Mechtilde of Magdeburg, [i]The Flowing Light of the Godhead[/i]

"Because love is natural, it is only right to love the Author of nature first of all."
"Whosoever loves God aright loves all God's creatures."
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, [i]On Loving God[/i]

"Divine love brings with it every good and banishes every evil."
St. Catherine of Genoa, [i]Life and Doctrine[/i]

I have several pages more... in fact I have a little chunky book full of quotes and poems about love...

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Oct 10 2005, 10:54 PM']"Yet readiness to do good to someone who hates us is a characteristic of perfect love alone."
St. Maximus the Confessor, [i]Centuries on Charity[/i]

"Therefore we ought to love one another warmly, for he who loves his neighbor loves God, and he who loves God loves his own soul."
St. Anthony, [i]letter[/i]

"When the heart has no love of itself, it will be forever aroused to love you alone!"
St. Mechtilde of Magdeburg, [i]The Flowing Light of the Godhead[/i]

"Because love is natural, it is only right to love the Author of nature first of all."
"Whosoever loves God aright loves all God's creatures."
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, [i]On Loving God[/i]

"Divine love brings with it every good and banishes every evil."
St. Catherine of Genoa, [i]Life and Doctrine[/i]

  I have several pages more...  in fact I have a little chunky book full of quotes and poems about love...
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the title of that little chunky book would be awesome. thanks for your help.



i have to admit my favorite so far, the one that struck me most was one lil red posted.
[quote]The important thing is not to think much but to love much. So do that which bestirs you to love. -St. Teresa of Avila[/quote]


its so wise. im definitely going to be working hard on this one. Lord knows i need to!

[Lil Red]

i'm glad i could help!

[Old_Joe]

I can't remember the exact verse, but I think it's in 1 Corinthians. It's the one that goes, "Love is Patient, Love is kind..."

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='philothea' date='Oct 10 2005, 03:55 PM']My signature.

From the Song of Songs  (near the end, I can find the exact verse #s if you want.)
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i actually know exactly where this one is. we sang a song with the words from those verses in choir last year. its pretty neat.

Song of Songs, Chapter 8:6-7
6
Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm;
For stern as death is love,
relentless as the nether world is devotion;
its flames are a blazing fire.
7
Deep waters cannot quench love,
nor floods sweep it away.
Were one to offer all he owns to purchase love,
he would be roundly mocked.

[quote name='Old_Joe' date='Oct 11 2005, 10:42 AM']I can't remember the exact verse, but I think it's in 1 Corinthians.  It's the one that goes, "Love is Patient, Love is kind..."
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1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues 2 but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.