Leonard Cohen Quotes

The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

There is no sin but the lack of love.

The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.

I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so.

Saints can spring from any soil.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.