Francis of Assisi Quotes

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

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

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.