While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
Anniversary Quotes
There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.
Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Another day goes by
Still the children cry
Put a little love in your heart.
We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
Mere by-blows are the world and we,
And time within eternity
A sheer anachronism.
I made a decision that, rather than looking for Love, I would let Love be me. Let Love be my life.
Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
Love is the effacement of the lover's attributes and the establishments of the Beloved's Essence.
Lovers do not reach the height of true love until one says to the other, "O Thou who art I."