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Love Quotes by Wendell Berry

79 Love quotes by Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry writes love as a quiet bond with the land and the people who tend it. He reminds us that time is mercy, that living in the present matters more than future plans, and that simple acts like sharing a farmer’s market are priceless. He also warns against unnecessary buying and says you cannot save the land apart from the people.

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It's the impeded stream that sings

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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

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Why I am NOT going to buy a computer

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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.

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Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.

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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.

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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not…

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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go…

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Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

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“There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm…

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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief,…

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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it…

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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.

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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar…

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“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief,…

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“Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of…

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“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when…

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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good…

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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

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“But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for…

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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature,…

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“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its…

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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in…

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I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created…

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“...And yet a knowledge is here that tenses the throat as for song: the inheritance of the ones, alive or once alive,…

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If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see…

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I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she…

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“People generally suppose that they don't understand one another very well, and that is true; they don't. But some things they communicate…

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“And yet love obstinately answers that no loved one is standardized. A body, love insists, is neither a spirit nor a machine;…

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“Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the…

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If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other…

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“Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and…

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“Marriage [is] not just a bond between two people but a bond between those two people and their forebears, their children, and…

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“God loves Port William as it is... Why else should He want it to be better than it is? All my life…

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“...we begin to understand marriage as the insistently practical union that it is. We begin to understand it, that is, as it…

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“As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be…

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“I could not have desired her enough. She was a living soul and could be loved forever. Like every living creature, she…

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“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound…

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define…

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“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it…

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean…