Hafez Quotes

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.

What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.

Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.

Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.

The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't necessarily love Krishna, so they can't understand Him and give Him to us.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.