Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself.

All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God, though not always of the same kind; for that Love one while shining on the soul we call grace, which makes us acceptable to His Divine Majesty; when it strengthens us to do well, it is called Charity; but when it attains its fullest perfection, in which it not only leads us to do well, but to act carefully, diligently, and promptly, then it is called Devotion.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

The perfect man sees nothing but God.

If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.