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1		"The earth will not fail, but will shower us with blessings if only we shower it with the blessings of God's love." Creation Waits (Agnes Sanford)

2		"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

3		"Give to each other real love in the times that lie ahead, for it is the fusing and illuminating element in the life of the disciple. Let not your love remain theoretical, but give that true understanding which ignores mistakes, recognises no barriers, refuses all separating thoughts, and surrounds each other with that protecting wall of love that meets all need wherever possible – physical, emotional and mental. Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

4		"Love, founded on truth and not on someone's mood, knows by its own fires of devotion how to make calamities serve a useful purpose." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

5		"He who Loves feels love descending into him and if he has wisdom may perceive it is from the Poetic Genius which is the Lord." William Blake, 'Annotations to Swedenborg's 'Divine Love and Divine Wisdom' The Soul's Religion, Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life (Thomas Moore)

6		"The soul that walks in love neither rests nor grows tired." St. John of the Cross The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

7		"Love and mercy apply to everybody, no matter how much we want to hate them." Bo Lozoff, author The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

8		"Love is the wiring that connects our souls with God." The Healing Light (Agnes Sanford)

9		"It's all one single water from the ocean of God's holy love." Ecstatic Journey, The Transforming Power of Mystical Experience (Sophy Burnham)

10		"You and all beings are loved by God with deathless and unconditional love." A Walk with Four Spiritual Guides: Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Ramakrishna (Andrew Harvey)

11		"Feel the Love which God is. God is Love." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

12		"Like oil in sesame seeds, like buttter in cream, like water in springs, like fire in a firestick, so dwells the Lord of Love, The Self, in the very depths of consciousness." The Upanishads God, A Companion for Seekers (David Schiller)

13		"Love [is] incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent." Gordon W. Allport Living Quotations for Christians (Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)

14		"'It is love which makes the world go round', says an old, familiar adage…the truth of all is behind it." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)

15		"A life of love lasts forever." Born For Love: Reflections on Loving (Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)

16		"Every living creature tends to return love for love." The Healing Light (Agnes Sanford)

17		"It is the heart force that brings all life, that creates all life, that moves through us. It is never too late to touch this fountain. So take time to listen, to allow that wellspring to be known in your own life." Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher, 'The Wellspring of the Heart' Handbook for the Heart, Original Writings on Love (Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors)

18		"The whole gist of the matter lies in the will, and this is what our Dear Lord meant by saying, 'The Kingdom of God is within you.' It is not a question of how much we know, how clever we are…. it all depends upon the heart's love. External actions are the results of love, the fruit it bears; but the source, the root, is in the deep of the heart." Francois Fenelon (1651-1715), French Archbishop of Cambray The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

19		"Love is filled with itself, and where love has come it inundates and transforms all other feelings." Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

20		“Love rules over all.” Mechthild of Magdeburg Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg (Henry L. Carrigan, Jr., editor)

21		"A certain circulation appears in love because it is from good and toward good and that circling agrees with the divine eternity of love, since circular motion alone can be perpetual." Thomas Aquinas, DDN, n. 450, p. 148 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

22		"Truly, 'all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose' (Romans 8:28). What is his purpose? – love shared, love made manifest, love everywhere present." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

23		"Appreciation is the sunlight of love that makes relationships grow and bear fruit." The Language of Silence (J. Allen Boone)

24		"All the world, and all who are in it, are bound together in a love we cannot define or describe. But we know that somehow nothing is more real than this." In Silence: Why We Pray (Donald Spoto, Ph.D.)

25		"The function, action, and quality of the heart is love. Love in its broadest sense is the desire for reunion with the divine Spirit of the Creator which permeates all life." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder)