Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Matthew 22:37

God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
- I John 4:16

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- 1Corinthians 13

 

Divine Love has met and always will meet every human need.
- Mary Baker Eddy

You are love itself when you are not afraid.
- Nisargadatta

Love

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; No disease that enough love will not heal; No door that enough love will not open; No gulf that enough love will not bridge; No wall that enough love will not throw down; No sin that enough love will not redeem….
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, How hopeless the outlook, How muddled the fangle, How great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all….
If only you could love enough, You would be the happiest And most powerful being in the world.
- Emmet Fox

Selections form “The Art of Love” by Wilfred Peterson

Love is the foundation and the apex of the pyramid of our existence.

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

Love is the supreme good, it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

Love is the perfect antidote that floods the mind to wash away hatred, jealousy, resentments, anxiety and fear.

The art of love is God at work through you.

All Embracing Love

Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou will perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou will hence forward grow everyday to al fuller understanding of it; until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal
- Fyodor Dostoevesky

A though transfixed me: For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth that is love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart; the salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor Frankl- Man’s Search for meaning
Holocaust survivor

The Rose

Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razor
that leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

The depth, breadth, height, might majesty and glory of infinite love fills all space. That is enough!
- Science and Health

No power can withstand divine Love.
- Mary Baker Eddy

There is no path greater than love
There is no law higher than love
And there is no goal beyond love
God and love are identical
- Meher Baba

Love inspires, illumines designates and leads the way.
- Mary Baker Eddy

We should measure our love for God by our love for Man.
- Mary Baker Eddy

Dynamic Christian Science

Bicknell Young
Spiritual Love

Only as we love do we express God, and only as love to do we live, because He is not only Love, but Life also. In this loving do we know God and believe the Love that God hath to us. There is no other way than to be this dynamic, active, loving presence of divine Love…
Should we see a reality in our brother that does not our loving him, we are accepting something that does not originate in God, nor come to us from him. Thus we repudiate the immaculate universe of divine love in which this brother is an idea of God and create for ourselves a fictitious universe in which we believe Love is not present. The unhappy consequence s of this error is inevitable. We shut out the kingdom of heaven

Teach me to Love

There was a time when in my daily prayer
I asked for all things I deemed most fair,
And necessary to my life- success,
Riches of course, and ease, and happiness;
A host of friends, a home without alloy;
A primrose path of luxury and joy,
Social distinction, and enough of fame
To leave behind a well-remembered name.

Ambition ruled my life. I longed to do
Great things, that all my little world
Might view
And whisper, “Wonderful!”
Ah, patient God
How blind we are, until Thy shepherd’s
rod
Of tender chastening gently lead us on
To better things! Today I have but one
Petition, Lord –Teach me to love. Indeed
It is my greatest and my only need-
Teach me to love not those who first
Love me
But all the world, with that rare purity
Of broad, outreaching thought which bears no trace
Of earthly taint, but holds in its embrace
Humanity, and only seems to see
The good in all reflected, Lord, from
Thee
And teach me, Father how to love the most
Those who most stand in need of love-
That host
of people who are sick and poor and bad,
Whose tired faces show lives are sad,
Who toil along the road with footsteps
Slow,
And hearts more heavy than the world can
Know
People whom others pass discreetly by
Or fail to hear the pleading of that cry
For help, amid the tumult of the crowd;
Whose very anguish makes them cold and
Proud,
Resentful, stubborn, bitter in their grief-
I want to bring them comfort and relief
To put my hand in theirs, and at their
Side
Walk softly on a faithful, fearless guide.
O Savior, thou the Christ, Truth ever
Near,
Help me to feel these sad ones doubly near
Because they need so much! Help me to
Seek
And find that which they thought was lost; to speak
Such words of cheer that as we pass along
The wilderness shall blossom into song.

Ah, Love divine, how empty was that
prayer
Of other days! That which was once so
Fair-
Those flimsy baubles which the world calls joys
Are nothing to me but broken toys,
Outlived, outgrown. I thank Thee that I
Know
Those much-desired dreams of long ago,
Like butterflies, have had their summer’s
Day
Of brief enchantment and have gone. I pray for better things
Thou knowest, God above,
My one desire now- Teach me to love.
- Christian Science Journal of October 1908