Tag: love

Change Is Possible

Therefore whenever you see evil, look for the good behind it, the good that it is perverting. When you see a parasite, look for its host. When God saw the hate-filled persecutor of Christians, Saul…

It’s Not Easy

But the love revealed in Jesus, simple as it sounds, is terribly arduous. That is why the history of our faith so often reads like a history of our resistance to love. Give us rules….

Today’s One-Liner (#242)

Brothers, do not be afraid of men’s sin, love man also in his sin, for this likeness of God’s love is the height of love on earth. –Zosima, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

This Leads to That

Often, at the culminating point of a violent headache, I make myself say [George Herbert’s Love] over, concentrating all my attention upon it and clinging with all my soul to the tenderness it enshrines. I…

Today’s One-Liner (#174)

 Whenever I was in love I always felt there was a telegraphic esprit between the person and me.  –—Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations, edited by Grace Farrell, p. 206

Today’s One-Liner (#158)

You may be exhausted with work, even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. –Mother Teresa, Everything Starts from Prayer, Selected and Arranged by Anthony Stern