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1 "God is love…He can be, and is to be, loved, and all without exception are his children." Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)

2 "The enlightened person begins to experience a spontaneous love for every creature and every thing, whatever their qualities or attributes. The growth of such a love is a recurrent theme in most religions." The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness (Peter Russell)

3 "We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love." William Penn One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

4 "Concerning love the beloved disciple said, 'God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him' (1 John 4:16)." St. Theodoros the Great Ascetic, 'A Century of Spiritual Texts' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

5 "Are you open to this power of grace and love that extends to all sentient beings?" The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

6 "In love we witness the operation of a law of spiritual gravitation; and like physical gravitation it is a ubiquitous force which cements the universe into a harmonious unity of functioning. To describe love only in terms of emotion is to miss the universal impersonal truth it expresses." The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite (Arthur W. Osborn)

7 "Overflowing love will save the world." Reincarnation (Annie Besant)

8 "To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all directions." Madame Switchine The Book of Love, A Treasury Inspired by the Greatest of Virtues (Andrew M. Greeley and Mary G. Durkin)

9 "Where charity is, there is clarity." Hugh of St. Victor, 'De Sacramentis', II. xiii. 11 Dante and the Mystics (Edmund G. Gardner)

10 "This mind of love is very wide. It grows immeasurably and eventually is able to embrace the whole world." Madhyama Agama, Sutra 86 Teachings on Love (Thich Nhat Hanh)

11 "The universe is a great system of vibrations we draw to us by our feelings: fear draws fear, love draws love." Lynne Sharon Schwartz, novelist, 'Fatigue Artist' Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

12 "All the great seers teach that God in himself is infinite love – that his manifestation, form or body is infinite wisdom – that divine love is the self-subsisting life of the universe." Cosmic Consciousness (Richard M Bucke)

13 "Love is the key to every closed door. Learn to use it until all doors have been opened." The Spirit of Findhorn (Eileen Caddy)

14 "Wisdom is the love of God. It is the desire of love that aspires only to give itself, to communicate itself." Pierre Deghaye, 'Jacob Boehme and His Followers' Modern Esoteric Spirituality (Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors)

15 "Love alone is the sovereign power." The Garden of the Golden Flower, The Journey to Spiritual Fulfilment (Longfield Beatty)

16 "It is not a matter of 'I ought to love'; not 'I will love'; not 'I hope to love some day'; but 'I love you now'. You may not like what a person does; you may not approve of him, but you cannot afford to not love him. Think to yourself: 'I love God in this person.'" Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

17 "Unifying love fully reaches its goal in a suprahistorical being-with and being-in that involves both God and humans. For God is so fully present to and in all that no other source of light is needed to enable us to live and be enlightened (Rev. 22:5)." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

18 "What, then, is real virtue? Anything wrought in the soul by divine love alone." Meister Eckhart (1260-1327), The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

19 "In its deepest significance love is a state of oneness or union with another." Mysticism and Ecumenism (Robley Edward Whitson)

20 "Each person is a center of infinite love….Through recognition, the use of infinite love within a person can grow." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

21 "Love is real;….love saves;….love perfects;….enlightened love is the most precious thing in all the world." Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Healing of Heart Doctrine (Manly P. Hall)

22 "Interrelatedness, seeing the oneness of all things and their interconnections, is the essence of compassion." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

23 "Actions motived by love, service and unselfishness produce a growing freedom of self-expression." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

24 "Pure love is God Himself." St. Catherine of Genoa The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

25 "Perfect love casts out fear. Perfect love is right within you, ready to be sent forth in ever-widening circles. Learn how to release that perfect love within that casts out fear." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite