Dorothy Day Quotes

Love is a spiritual grace. We learn it from God.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.

Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.

Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.

I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

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

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

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.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Where love is, there God is also.

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.

All love is really God's love.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.

There are no different categories of love. There isn't one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and another between friends. The love that is real is the love that lies at the heart of all relationships. That is the love of God and it doesn't change with form or circumstance.

God is a name we give to love.