“Self-love is great, but the greatest of all is the love that stretches beyond the self.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Agape has suffered almost irreparable damage by translating it “love,” without the catharsis of careful scholarship.” — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
“I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape. — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“[Agape love is] a profound concern for the welfare of another without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by… — Edward Nason West Copy Share Image
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“One of my roommates called it 'agape.' I'd never heard the word before, but it was her favorite word, and I was… — Hannah Brencher Copy Share Image
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
“Bono has commented often that U2 did everything the wrong way around. Other bands started singing about girls and then found the… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
“We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the… — Guy T. Simpson Jr Copy Share Image
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love.… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“ Agape is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action. Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community.… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both… — Marshall Gregory Copy Share Image
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“They'll say you are bad or perhaps you are mad or at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bare… — David Rovics Copy Share Image
“How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can… — John David Geib Copy Share Image
Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“Eros remains largely egocentric...it is a longing for union with an object which will fulfil the promise of self-completion…[Agape] is theocentric and… — Andrew Vincent Copy Share Image
On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you’ve done… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely… — Obert C. Tanner Copy Share Image
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
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