Raymond Carver Quotes

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that.

I don't think I could truly value human love until I developed divine love.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.