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“Why should inspiration be limited to one past age? If Truth came to Paul 1900 years ago it can come to you today. After all, Heaven is as near to-day, God is as loving and as kind to-day, and truth as abundant to-day, as in the ages when men are said to have possessed inspiration.”
Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're [the Red Hot Chili Peppers] jamming and that works really well. We don't talk much about songs or how songs should be constructed. We just start to play and see what happens, how they develop. We improvise a lot. We find a groove. We experiment and somehow it turns into music. The Koreans have influenced us a lot, through their loving attitude, evil dictatorship, and funky bass playing.”
Flea (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is meant here is that man should not become immersed in loving the world which will make him forget the responsibilities that Allah had ordered him to hold, but he has to look at the world in its reality, in which it represents a place for obeying Allah.”
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty.”
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Strategy and Tactics of Soviet Foreign Policy (1963) by John Malcolm Mackintosh, p. 4
“I'll be true, I'll be useful... I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear. and I'll belong to you... if you'll just let me through. this is easy as lovers go, so don't complicate it by hesitating. and this is wonderful as loving goes, this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?”
Chris Carrabba (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been an incredible pleasure to be part of fighting the good fight on the right side. That is about respecting people. Can we move beyond "tolerate" and start embracing, loving, and accepting, and learning from, and being challenged by? That's how you build a resilient society. That's what we're trying to do in Canada. And we've got a lot of work still to do.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trudeau promotes the cause of compassion for others and openness to diversity during a period of heightened concern for the well-being of LGBT communities, in a cameo appearance on Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The Wor…
“Maybe you want to give me kisses sweet, But only for one night with no repeat. Maybe you'd go away and never call, And a taste of honey is worse than none at all (oh little girl) Oh little girl, in that case I don't want no part. (I do believe that) That would only break my heart. Oh, but if you feel like loving me, If you got the notion, I second that emotion.”
Smokey Robinson (born 1940) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Second That Emotion, written by Smokey Robinson and Al Cleveland (1967)
“I have already dealt with MIBs, psychotronics, black helicopters, etc. There is protection around my work. It has not been fun. Nonetheless, it is what I signed on for. Twenty years ago I had an NDE. Made conscious contact with the source. . . . The hype reporters usually go away with nothing. Those who come with an open mind and loving heart go away transformed.”
James Gilliland (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jussie is my friend - a very talented & beautiful human being. It is so hurtful that homophobic haters would dare hurt someone so loving and giving. I'm dedicated to finding the culprits and bringing them to justice. Jussie did not deserve to be harmed by anyone!”
Maxine Waters (born 1938) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 January 2019 regarding Jussie Smollett
Also quoted by: Jussie Smollett
“Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.”
Benedict of Nursia (480–547) said by 547 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“King, tried in fires of woe! Men hunger for thy grace: And through the night I go, Loving thy mournful face. Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.”
Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only beauty purely loving Knows no discord,But still moves delight, Like clear springs renewed by flowing, Ever perfect, ever in themselves eternal.”
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) said by 1620 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we walk the path of Refuge Recovery, we gradually uncover a loving heart.”
Noah Levine (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.”
Immanuel Jakobovits (1921–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.”
Clement Freud (1924–2009) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Observer (1964-12-27)
“The world is large when weary leagues two loving hearts divide But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.”
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've learned I can trust that humans in general will strive to make things better for themselves and their communities. Not all of us. Not always in principled, loving, or respectful ways. Often the direst opposite, in fact. But we're all on the same spinning ball of dirt, trying to live as best we can.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from the Forward to Falling in Love with Hominids (2015)
“There is no god but God and Muhammad (aws) is God’s prophet and messenger; the purpose of life is to establish a loving relationship with The One through a hermeneutic engagement with God’s signs (ayat) in revelation, creation, and in the human mind and heart; such a purpose requires a wholehearted commitment to learning in all its forms…”
Yakoub Islam first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Muslim Anarchist Charter (20 June 2005)
“Attention is not merely the ability to concentrate on a task. It is also a way of being in the world. There is a vast difference between task-oriented attention to a machine and mindful, loving awareness of another being.”
Heather Brooke (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A loving person is one who is awakened and transformed into empathy.”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel my most beautiful when I am truly myself. Meaning, when I accept exactly where I am in time and space, and I’m not judging myself in any way, and I feel that I have the peace that comes with loving yourself and all of your flaws, I see so much now how beauty really does, as cliché as it sounds, emanate from within.”
Gwyneth Paltrow (born 1972) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to People magazine named Paltrow the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2013 (April 24, 2013)
“India, as she is, is a problem which can only be read by the light of Indian history. Only by a gradual and loving study of how she came to be, can we grow to understand what the country actually is, what the intention of her evolution, and what her sleeping potentiality may be.”
Sister Nivedita (1867–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sister Nivedita, Footfalls in Indian History (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1990), p. 6. quoted in The Problem of Indian History by Michel Danino* (Published in Dialogue, April-June 2012, vol. 13, no. 4)
“Strong as a young lion, pliant as a loving woman, and bitter to the taste, as all enchantment in the end must be.”
Susan Cooper (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To the degree that a man possesses a vivid ideal of the good life, submerges himself in the sea of human misery and endeavors to alleviate suffering, kindles imagination in hours of silence and by visions of beauty, and follows the noblest personality into the presence of a loving, suffering Father—to the extent that he lives meaningfully, he will be convinced of sin and cry aloud for deliverance.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Penitence and Social Progress" World Tomorrow 15 (May, 1932)
“Of all the founders of great religions, Jesus alone proclaimed one God, immanent and powerful, holy and righteous, a loving and seeking Father, concerned about the welfare of each of his children.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How great is the difference between The hidden child and the secret friend! For the friend makes only loving, Living but measured ascents toward God. But the child presses on to lose its own life upon the summits, in that simplicity which knoweth not itself.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Evelyn Underhill Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 433
“This brightness is so great that the loving contemplative, in his ground wherein he rests, sees and feels nothing but an incomprehensible Light; and through that Simple Nudity which enfolds all things, he finds himself and feels himself to be that same Light by which he sees and nothing else. . . . Blessed are the eyes which are thus seeing, for they possess eternal life.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In this embrace, in the essential unity of God, are all inner spirits one with God in loving transport, and they are the selfsame one that the essence itself is in itself. And in this sublime unity of the divine nature, the heavenly Father is the origin and the beginning of every work that is done in heaven and on earth”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such is the citadel of loving Souls where all pure intellects are united, in one simple Purity. This is the habitation of God in us, where none can operate but God alone; its Purity is eternal, there is neither time nor space, past nor future, always present and ready to be revealed to those pure intelligences raised to it.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Simplicity is the loving inclination of the soul elevated by God, Who efficaciously drawn it into His own heart. There He reduces all its faculties to unity of spirit, that it may live there, in a n abstract, simple and essential condition, without sensible desire to reason or think of order or disorder. It is continually lost in the eternity of God.”
John of St. Samson (1572–1636) said by 1636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the reason why we are not satisfied with a small or a big partial reform, because we want a total change. And if we do our utmost to use pure means and to maintain an honest and loving conscience, this will be the offer we can make and the guarantee that we can have that a total liberation will take place.”
Aldo Capitini (1899–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we cannot take away all the grief, all the evil, all the death, we will start with loving everyone, trying ourselves not to give the grief, the evil, the death, with the faith that the rest of the grief, evil and death will disappear.”
Aldo Capitini (1899–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She said, "We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. We are so terribly different." "Yes," he said, "But the more different, the more lovely the loving.”
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps the greatest good that will emerge from this Far Eastern crisis is an awareness that freedom-loving men of all races and all nations will have proved that they can and must work and fight together if their freedom is to survive.”
Bill Downs (1914–1978) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stated on "Edward R. Murrow with the News" on December 26, 1952.
“We have, among innumerable other works, the Summa theologica, surely one of the most amazing and stupendous products of the human mind. ...never before or since has the wide world been so neatly boxed and compassed, so completely and confidently understood, every detail of it fitted, with such subtle and loving precision, into a consistent and convincing whole.”
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can bear that. for the sake of our country, are you blaming us for loving our country or what?”
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (born 1954) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013).
“No, my dad had well explained to me that a real man didn’t get offended if other men ridiculed him for staying close to the women of his familia. That a real hombre was proud of being close and loving with the women of his life.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fair and stately grace of his white purity was round him as a radiant moonlit halo, and his words, though few, were ever sweet and loving, winning even the most harsh to a temporary gentleness, and the most rigid to a passing softness. Thus he lived through nine-and-twenty years of mortal life, growing from grace to grace. p. 132”
Annie Besant (1847–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is an all-powerful and loving God in this world, why is there so much excruciating pain and unspeakable suffering? The problem of suffering has haunted me for a very long time. It was what made me begin to think about religion when I was young, and it was what led me to question my faith when I was older. Ultimately, it was the reason I lost my faith.”
Bart D. Ehrman (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.”
Lena Horne (1917–2010) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: The New Bajan (1990) p. 22
“Transformation: Compassion and loving kindness can transform an enemy into a friend, while right view and wisdom can transform suffering into happiness.”
Thích Nhật Từ (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As he mentions this last sin, he looks down my nightgown, which I’m just loving. I press his hand against my warm thigh. “Don’t worry, sweetie. I don’t live in Hell. I live in San Jose.”
Rudy Rucker (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is only a way of escape from a place: is leaving ourselves. There is only a way of leaving ourselves: is loving someone. Só há um modo de escapar de um lugar: é sairmos de nós. Só há um modo de sairmos de nós: é amarmos alguém.”
Mia Couto (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The contemporary vegan movement is founded on loving-kindness and mindfulness of our effects on others. It is revolutionary because it transcends and renounces the violent core of the herding culture in which we live.”
Will Tuttle (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, dutiful daughter,” said Azhrarn. “You are to be a goddess somewhere, for I would teach this world the nature of gods.” “And what is their nature?” she said. “Indifferent and cruel. And loving not mankind.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before being Christians or Jews or Muslims, before being Americans or Russians or Africans, before being generals or priests, rabbis or imams, before having visible or invisible disabilities, we are all human beings with hearts capable of loving,”
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jean Vanier: Philosopher.. The Independent, 11 March 2015
“In Germany the common people are peace-loving, ... The Devil has put his representative Hitler in control, a man who is of unsound mind, cruel, malicious and ruthless . . . He cruelly persecutes the Jews because they were once Jehovah’s covenant people and bore the name of Jehovah, and because Christ Jesus was a Jew.”
Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.”
Alan Paton (1903–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source