"Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery."
- Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Hatred stirs up disputes but love covers all offenses.
--Proverbs 10:12
Above all, let your love for one another be intense because love covers a multitude of sins.
--1 Peter, 4:8
The bread in your box belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your closet belongs to the naked; the shoes you do not wear belong to the barefoot; the money in your vaults belongs to the destitute.
--Saint Basil
"So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.""
- Archbishop Fulton Sheen
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
- Mother Teresa
"The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day."
- Pope John Paul II
"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."
- St. Teresa of Avila
"If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves."
--Thomas Sowell
"No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ."
- St. Leo the Great
"Love to be real, it must costÀúit must hurtÀúit must empty us of self."
- Mother Teresa
"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."
- Mother Teresa
"Have a great compassion for people. To be able to have a heart full of compassion, we need to pray. Especially be kind, be loving to the poor. We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich. We are in debt to them. Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance."
- Mother Teresa
"Charity unites us to God. There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect."
- St. Clement I
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not there, I think the ocean would be less by that missing drop. We don't have to think in numbers. We can only love one person at a time - serve one person at a time."
- Mother Teresa
"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
- Mother Teresa
"Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God."
- Pope John Paul II
"There is no place for selfishness˜and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice."
- Pope John Paul II
"At the end of life, we shall be judged by love."
- San Juan de la Cruz
"The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world."
- Mother Teresa
'You ask me for some short prayer by which to testify your love for God. I know of and consider nothing more efficacious than this same love, for when one loves, everything speaks of love, even our most absorbing occupations can be a proof of our love. Love then -- as St. Augustine says -- and do what you will.'
--St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
"By your work you show what you love and what you know."
- St. Bruno
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