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ROMANTIC
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close. Pablo Neruda
A Ditty by Sir Philip Sidney
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one to the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
He loves my heart, for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“Be faithful to your love and you will be recompensed beyond measure.” -Albert Schweitzer
“The first duty of love is to listen.” -Paul Tillich
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”-Thomas Merton
“Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.” -John Cotton Jr.
“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like brick; re-made all the time, made new.” -Ursala K. LeGuin
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” -Judy Garland
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” -A. A. Milne
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see love was the answer to everything.” -Ray Bradbury
The Kiss
by Stephen Dunn
She pressed her lips to mind. —a typo
How many years I must have yearned
for someone’s lips against mind.
Pheromones, newly born, were floating
between us. There was hardly any air.
She kissed me again, reaching that place
that sends messages to toes and fingertips,
then all the way to something like home.
Some music was playing on its own.
Nothing like a woman who knows
to kiss the right thing at the right time,
then kisses the things she’s missed.
How had I ever settled for less?
I was thinking this is intelligence,
this is the wisest tongue
since the Oracle got into a Greek’s ear,
speaking sense. It’s the Good,
defining itself. I was out of my mind.
She was in. We married as soon as we could.
SPIRITUAL
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. 1Corinthians 13
LOVE
1 Corinthians 13:13 …faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 John 4:19. We love because He first loved us.
1 Pet 4:18. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 Cor 13:4. Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does boast, it is not proud.
John 15:17. This is My command: love each other.
Eph 5:25. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Mark 12:33. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all offerings and sacrifices.
Prov 20:28. Love and faithfulness keep a king safe; through love his throne is made secure.
Psalm 92:2. Proclaiming your love in the morning, your faithfulness at night.
1 John 4:18. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.
John 13:34. A new command I give you – love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
“God’s grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.” -Henry W. Beecher
“Grace is God’s love in action for those who don’t deserve it.” -Robert Schuller
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -Mother Teresa
HELPFUL LINKS
Janis Charlton Pullen, Relationship Coach
