SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: LOVE

  • I should never have contentions with somebody. You should never see someone in the hallway [of church] and look the other way.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • That is the message of Claire’s Knee. Love is a serious business, and sex is a serious business. It’s not always possible to control it with “reason” (the message of My Night at Maud’s) or with a casual, “free love” approach to life (the message of Claire’s Knee). The older, harsher, more dogmatic rules were created to deal with the physical and elemental side of romance and sex. Rohmer is saying that, perhaps, we should think twice before setting them aside.

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    But Rohmer isn’t going along. He thinks it’s all a crock — the whole milieu, the whole lifestyle, the whole philosophy. It’s life as a porn film. It’s not going to work.

    —Robert Garrick, Claire’s Knee, Cinema St. Louis

  • “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

    —Mother Teresa

  • We want something from Him, not Him at all. Is that a relationship? Do we behave in that way with our friends? Do we aim at what friendship can give us or is it the friend whom we love?

    —Met. Anthony Bloom, Beginning To Pray

  • “You don’t just stop loving someone because they don’t love you back.”

    —Roald Dahl, Esio Trot

  • Such persons are so caught up in God’s love that everything else can only receive its meaning and purpose in the context of that love. They ask only one question: “What is pleasing to the Spirit of God?” And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers.

    —Henri Nouwen, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life

  • “Do not wish to assure everyone in words of your love for them, but rather ask God to show them your love without words.”

    —St. John Climacus

  • We don’t come into this world separate, or belonging to a select few, but we’re a part of the human race. All of us amazingly the same in spite of our differences.

    This is the real thing. We belong to each other. We always have…

    I count it a loss if I don’t touch a life, offer a smile, a prayer, a pause along the way. So every day I continue to do this one tiny thing. This one tiny, incredible thing.

    —River Jordan, Praying for Strangers

  • Stop pleasing yourself and you will not hate your brother; stop loving yourself and you will love God.”

    —St. Maximos the Confessor

  • “Because I loved myself, I was loved.”

    —Erica Jong, Blood & Honey