“Self-love is great, but the greatest of all is the love that stretches beyond the self.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“To agape,” we all echoed, raising our wineglasses and drinking to higher love.” — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.” — Luna McNamara 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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“Agape has suffered almost irreparable damage by translating it “love,” without the catharsis of careful scholarship.” — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other,… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tenderness in her,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“ Agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of… — Martin Luther King Jr 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
My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, agape means a recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Every action is a losing, a letting go, a passing away from oneself of some bit of one’s own reality into the… — Arthur C. McGill Copy Share Image
“Braćo, ne bojte se grehova ljudskih, volite čoveka i u grehu njegovom, jer kad ko voli čoveka grešnog, to je već slika… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Holistic, unconditional love, agape, is the unity in which duality disappears. It is as if a certain internal boundary has vanished. With… — Kabir Edmund Helminski Copy Share Image
“No doubt, God has placed you in the position to love the unlovely, whether or not you've been obedient to that command.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“HE remembered looking "agape" in his encyclopedia volume after he read Dr. King's speech in the DEFENDER. The newspaper ran the address… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Love, the phenomenal act of canceling self in favor of the very same self.” — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
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![“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 selfless. It can flow through us, but it is not 'ours.' We only love, according to 1 John 4.19 'because he first loved us.” quote by Andrew Vincent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/andrew-vincent-219261_agape_eros-remains-largely-egocentric-it-is-a_2773834.jpg)
![“There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him, but in order to love the enemy you must not do it... The Greek language has another word [for love]. It calls it agape. Agape is more than romantic love. Agape is more than friendship. Agape…” quote by Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2eb/martin-luther-king-jr-127_agape_there-may-come-a-time-when-it-will-be-po_2953320.png)
