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    Alain de Botton
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    Colossians 3:12-14, Mark 10:13-16, Hebrews 10:24-25, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, Romans 12:10, Philippians 2:4
    True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.

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    Sam Keen
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    Ephesians 4:2, John 21:15-19, 1 Peter 4:8, Colossians 3:12-14, Romans 12:9-10, Ruth 1:16, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
    We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

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    N. T. Wright
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    Colossians 3:13, Matthew 5:7, Micah 4:2-3, Isaiah 11:4, Romans 12:17-18
    Jesus offers a new sort of justice, a creative, healing, restorative justice. The old justice found in the Bible was designed to prevent revenge running away with itself. Better an eye for an eye and ...

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    Fred Rogers
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    Acts 17:10-12, Mark 10:13-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Luke 10:25-37, Romans 12:2, Philippians 4:8
    Love is at the root of everything—all learning, all parenting, all relationships—love or the lack of it. And what we hear or see on the screen is part of who we become.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Galatians 5:13-14, John 13:1-17, Luke 10:25-37, 1 John 3:16-18, Romans 12:9-10, Philippians 2:3-4
    Love is not an affection feeling, rather it’s a steady wish for the other’s good as far as it can be obtained.

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    John 15:12, Matthew 9:20-22, Luke 10:25-37, Galatians 5:22-23, Colossians 3:14, Romans 12:9-10
    When one has once fully entered the realm of Love, the world—no matter how imperfect—becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for Love.

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    St. Thomas Aquinas
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    1 John 4:10-11, John 13:1-17, Ruth 1:16, Luke 10:25-37, Romans 12:9-10
    To love is to will the good of another. .

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    William Blake
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    1 John 4:10-11, John 13:1-17, Romans 12:9-10, John 15:12-13, Philippians 2:3-4, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
    Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair. So sung a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the cattle’s feet; B...

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    Henry David Thoreau
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    Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:20-21, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John 4:7-8, John 13:34-35
    There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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    Karl A. Menninger
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    Romans 12:9-10, Ruth 1:16, Galatians 6:2, Proverbs 17:22, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 1 John 4:7-12
    Love cures people: the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Psalm 133:1, Romans 12:4-5 , John 17:20-23, Exodus 17:12, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, Genesis 1:26-27
    If this world was made by a triune God, a being of community, then relationships of love are what life is really all about.

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    Eleanor Doan
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    1 John 4:7-8, Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 8:5-13, Proverbs 25:21-22, Romans 12:20-21, Luke 6:27-28, Matthew 5:43-44
    Love your enemy-it will drive him nuts.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Zechariah 7:9-10, James 1:27, Romans 12:18-19, Matthew 22:37-39, Ephesians 4:15, Isaiah 1:17, Micah 6:8
    What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anaemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice.

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    R. T. Kendall
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    Romans 12:20-21, James 5:16, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook-even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

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    David W. Augsburger
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    Galatians 6:2, John 4:1-26, Luke 10:38-42, Romans 12:15, Proverbs 1:5
    Being heard is so close to being loved, that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.

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    Bob Goff
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    Matthew 25:35-40, Luke 19:1-10, 1 Peter 3:9, Romans 12:20-21, Matthew 5:43-44, 1 John 4:18-19, Acts 7:
    What I’m learning about love is that we have to tackle a good amount of fear to love people who are difficult. .

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Colossians 3:12-13, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Job 2:11, Galatians 6:2, Romans 12:15
    When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain an...

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    Jean Danielou
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    Philippians 1:9-10, Proverbs 18:2, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Romans 12:3, Isaiah 66:2
    Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

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    Jeremy Taylor
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    Hebrews 5:14, Isaiah 6:9-10, Proverbs 20:27, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:18
    It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sen...

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    Abraham J. Heschel
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    Isaiah 55:6, Psalm 63:1, Romans 12:11-12, Psalm 42:1-2, Hebrews 11:6
    Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a dr...

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    Tod E. Bolsinger
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    Psalm 15:1-2, Ephesians 4:15, 2 Corinthians 1:12, Colossians 3:12-14, Romans 12:9-10
    Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to ...

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    Jonathan Swift
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    Romans 12:9-10, Luke 19:1-10, John 4:1-26, Galatians 5:14, Matthew 22:37-40, 1 John 4:20-21, John 13:34-35
    We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to makes us love one another.

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    Minucius Felix
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    1 Peter 4:8, 1 Samuel 18:20, Acts 2:42-47, Ephesians 4:2-3, Romans 12:10, 1 John 4:20-21
    Our bond, which you resent, consists in mutual love, for we know not how to hate; we call ourselves ‘brethren’ to which you object, as members of one family in God, as partners in one faith, as joint ...

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    Christopher Marlowe
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    Titus 2:7, Isaiah 61:3, 1 Peter 3:4, Romans 12:21, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Exodus 33:19
    Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

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    Bernard of Clairvaux
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    Romans 12:1, Psalm 139:13-14, Genesis 15:, Isaiah 43:1, 1 John 4:19
    Why should not the creature love His creator, who gave him the power to love? Why should he not love Him with all his being, since it is by His gift alone that he can do anything that is good? It was ...

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    Stephanie Paulsell
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    Genesis 1:27, Exodus 31:1-5 , Isaiah 58:10-11, Psalm 139:13-14 , 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Romans 12:1
    As the place where the divine presence dwells, our bodies are worthy of care and blessing. . . . It is through our bodies that we participate in God’s activity in the world.

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    Emily Dickinson
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    Habakkuk 2:3, Romans 12:12, James 5:7-8, Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 130:5, Lamentations 3:25-26
    To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Matthew 2:1-12, Titus 3:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 8:12, Matthew 5:3-10, Romans 12:2, Galatians 5:1, Genesis 12:1-4, Ephesians 4:22-24, Isaiah 1:18
    Moonless darkness stands between. Past, the Past, no more be seen! But the Bethlehem-star may lead me To the sight of Him Who freed me From the self that I have been. Make me pure, Lord: Thou art holy...

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    Thomas Keating
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    Ephesians 4:32, Romans 12:10, Colossians 3:12-14, Galatians 6:2, Philippians 2:3-4
    The kingdom is present not in grandiose accomplishments, but in showing practical love in humble ways, day after day, and in refusing to allow our failures and disappointments to hide God’s love from ...

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    Thomas à Kempis
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    2 Corinthians 5:15, Colossians 3:1-2, Romans 12:1, John 15:4-5, Philippians 3:7-8, Galatians 2:20, Matthew 6:33
    Let this be thy whole Endeavour, this thy prayer, this thy desire, that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.
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