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“Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our…

— Simon May

“To understand the love of being loving, radically changes us. People, in and of themselves, cannot give us happiness. Activities, in and of themselves,…

— Donna Goddard

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

— Anonymous

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

— Charles Baudelaire

It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

— Cyril Connolly

“Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately…

— Alain Badiou

“In simple terms, according to the Christian tradition, love is a metaphysical necessity for created beings since it is only through love that such…

— Matt Baglio

In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best…

— Thomas Keating

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too.

— Sorin Cerin

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

— Anonymous

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster