Pastoral Resources

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

We love even when our love is not requited.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Love without conversation is impossible.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.