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1		"To love is truly to know." The Flame and the Light (Hugh I'anson Fausset)

2		"Love is the right apprehension of the uses and purposes of form." A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (Alice A. Bailey)

3		"At the end of life we will be judged on how much we have loved." St. John of the Cross The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

4		"We are each inherently obliged to fulfill the Law in human form – to be Love." The Enlightenment of the Whole Body (Bubba Free John)

5		"Love commands you always to love: in waking and sleeping, in joy and sorrow, in gain and in loss. In whatever you do, you must love; for this is Love's first commandment." Romancing God: Contemplating the Beloved (Ramon Lull)

6		"Have charity, which is the bond of perfection." Spiritual Canticle (St. John of the Cross)

7		"There is a very slight distinction, if any, between complete, conscious faith and love." Alan Watts (1915-1973), 'This Is IT and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

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

9		"Clear and distinct knowledge begets a love towards an immutable and eternal object, of which we are really partakers; a love therefore which cannot be vitiated by the defects which are in common love, but which can always become greater and greater, occupy the largest part of the mind and thoroughly affect it." Benedict Spinoza Ethics (Benedict Spinoza)

10		"Love, the Supreme Musician, is always playing in our souls." Rumi The Essential Mystics (Andrew Harvey)

11		"The brotherhood of man is bound together by love." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

12		"Each of you can be a pure image [ of God]. You become purer as your love grows, and your love grows as you choose to love. You decide." The Light of Love (Patricia Devlin)

13		"The peace of God is a unity which is realized in the process of love." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

14		"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)

15		"The mystic vision is of a spiritual universe held within the bonds of love." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

16		"There is no one in the world who cannot arrive without difficulty at the most eminent perfection by fulfilling with love obscure and common duties." Jean-Pierre deCaussade, S. J., 'Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence' Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

17		"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. Better still is surrender in love, because there follows immediate peace." Bhagavad Gita The Essential Mystics (Andrew Harvey)

18		"If a mind perceives without love, it perceives an empty shell and is unaware of the spirit within." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

19		"You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are – which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

20		“Love is the mightiest power of all.” Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

21		"Love unites us to God, love covers up a host of sins, love suffers everything, and is patient with everything. There is nothing vulgar, nothing vain, about love. Love knows no schism, creates no discord, does everything in harmony." 'First Clement', 49 The Holy Fire, the Story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church (Robert Payne)

22		"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." Goethe One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

23		"Wherever there is a bit of colour, a note of song, a grace of form, then comes the call of our love." Rabindranath Tagore, 'Sadhana' Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

24		"He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbour." Venerable Bede Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

25		"Love is the core energy of the heart. It is also the energy of expansion, of connection. It is the vital, divine current of creation." Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self (Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite