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Love or Charity? Although the New International Version and other modern versions of the Corinthians Love is Patient Love is Kind Bible Verse are often used to describe the ideal love between a man and a woman, the King James Version of Corinthians reminds us that the kind of Love being described is the universal love of all people - which KJV translates with the word Charity.
Regardless of the original meaning of the Bible Verse, the NIV translation of the Corinthians Love is Patient Love is Kind quote does make a wonderful statement about ideal romantic love as well as a statement about universal love (charity).
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Love is patient, love is kind. |
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; |
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
-
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
-
William Shakespeare
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that is when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love begins with a smile,
grows with a kiss,
and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Love is never lost.
If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
-
Washington Irving
If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
-
George Eliot
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
-
William Shakespeare
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
-
George Savile
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- Tertullian
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
-
Victor Hugo
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
-
John Quincy Adams
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
-
Elbert Hubbard
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
-
Albert Schweitzer
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
-
Napoleon Hill
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
-
Hal Borland
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
-
Helen Keller
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
-
Anne Frank
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
From caring comes courage.
-
Lao Tzu
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others, but probably earlier and anonymous
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
-
Hippocrates (known as the "Father of Medicine")
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is unlimited -
it expands with the generosity, compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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