"We pardon to the extent that we love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on forgiveness
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"Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues."

Ezra, Iba on hatred
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"The first duty of love is to listen."

Tillich, Paul on listening
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Frost, Robert on love
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Jones, Franklin P. on love
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"Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall."

Chambless, David on love
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"One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return."

Orwell, George on children
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"Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."

Mooneyham, Stan on love
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"Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb."

Covey, Stephen R. on love
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on christians and christianity
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"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."

Billings, Josh on animals
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"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love."

Magdenburg, Mechthild of on soul
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"If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too. "

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on love
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"The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

Dickens, Charles on creativity
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues."

Balzac, Honore De on women
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"Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry."

Stokes, Rose Pastor on husbands   

"Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are."

Lyons, Chris on jesus christ
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"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]"

Bible on marriage
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world."

Haight, David B. on love
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