Human Love Quotes - Page 3

• You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Enemy, Divine

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.921, Vintage

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• ...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Father, Mean, Dear

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.293, ShandonPress

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• Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Acceptance, Dark, Love Is

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• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Love, Inspirational, Angel

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in love. (Selena) No. What he offers is an illusion. No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cute, Falling In Love, Rip

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• God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Children, Real

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• Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love Is, Way, Ships

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.201, Jester House Publishing

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• Two human loves make one divine.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Anniversary, Wedding, Two

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850). “Poems: By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In two volumes”, p.302

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• We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Forever, Grace

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Flaws, Failing

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• It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Compassion

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

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• For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
  Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
  Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.

  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

  Brother, Children, Grateful

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• We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Hatred, May

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• The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

  James A. Baldwin

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

  William John Locke

  Men, Mustard Seed, Grain

  William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”

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• The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Marriage, Spiritual, Unions

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

  Christopher Fry

  Ambition, Animal, Frustration

  "Comedy". Vogue, January, 1951.

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• There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness......In all ages everywhere, the true children of a true mother 'rise up and call her blessed'; for they realize, sooner or later, that God gives no richer blessing to man than is found in a mother's love.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Mother, Children, Blessed

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• She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Passion, Men

  Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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• Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.

  Toni Bentley

  Dancing, Perfect, Energy

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• Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Thinking, Ego

  Source: souljourns.net

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• There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Grace

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• Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Littles, Beloved, Persons

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.21, SCM Press

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• It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Is, Giving, Bases

  "Born For Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1994.

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