Thoughts on Life/Love
LOVE.
LOVE.
1. The holy plant of love blooms best in the darkest night of sorrow. Then do its fair blossoms arise and shine and bless with a beauty and fragrance unknown to the dazzling daylight of joy.
2. If thou lovest and art loved, then hast thou quaffed the cup of earthly bliss.
3. Love setteth no bounds to the perfections of its adored object.
4. Love hesitateth not at sacrifice.
5. Love looketh not for return.
6. Love hath infinite patience.
7. Oh, blessed Love, that keeps our hearts from turning to worm-wood and gall!
8. Sweet love doth offer blessed compensation.
9. Truly were life a barren waste did not love refresh us by the way.
10. Thou canst never do too much for those whom God hath given thee to love and cherish in life.
11. Hath a great gift of love been given thee, withhold it not: the world is starving for love.
12. To a very loving nature all philosophy fails with the failing of love.
13. A step that maketh the heart leap, a glance that pierceth the soul, a voice that blancheth the cheek, a touch that thrilleth the frame: these Love hath.
14. Love and Pain clasped hands long ago just outside the gates of Paradise. Since then no man hath been able to part the twain, who ever walk thus hand in hand.
15. Oh, wonderful mystery of love, well may we tremble in thy mighty presence who art at once the source of our purest joy and of our deepest anguish!
16. The light of love in Love's eyes will illumine the darkest night of woe.
17. Let the pure fires of faith and love burn ever brightly upon the hearth of thy soul.
18. There is something ineffably sweet in a sacrifice made for those we love.
19. Surmounting all things, Love soareth again to the skies whence it came; for Love is of heavenly birth.