All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Above all things have devoted love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Because God is love, the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.