Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Be Love; there is nothing greater.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

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.

At the heart of all things is love.

My religion is, to live through Love.

Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.