Sep 18 Wed
Quotes on love and relationships from the saints.
Benedict XVI: “My dear young friends, I want to invite you to ‘dare to love.’ Do not desire anything less for your life than a love that is strong and beautiful, and that is capable of making the whole of your existence a joyful adventure of giving yourselves as a gift to God and the others, in imitation of the One who conquered hatred and death forever through love.”
St. Teresa of Calcutta: “It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start.”
Venerable Fulton Sheen: “When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.”
St. John Paul II: “Love is never ready-made, something merely ‘given’ to man and woman; it is also a ‘task’ that they must work on. Love should be seen as something that never ‘is’ but is always only ‘becoming,’ and what it becomes depends upon the contribution of both persons and the depth of their commitment.”
Venerable Fulton Sheen: “It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God, people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon fall into emptiness. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
St. Clare of Assisi: “We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.”
St. John XXIII: “The flame of love that burned in the household at Nazareth should inspire every family. All the Christian virtues should flourish in the family, unity should thrive, and the example of its virtuous living should shine brightly.”
Benedict XVI: “Man cannot always give love; he must also receive. Anyone who wishes to give love must also be ready to receive love as a gift. One must become like a spring from which love, rivers of living water, flow. Yet to love, to become a river, one must constantly receive water from the source, which is Jesus Christ, from whose pierced heart flows the love of God.”
St. Josemaría Escrivá: “Marriage is to help married people sanctify themselves and others. For this reason, they receive a special grace in the sacrament that Jesus instituted. With the grace of God, those called to the married state will find within their state everything they need to be holy.”
St. John Paul II: “Love that leads to marriage is a gift from God and a great act of faith toward other human beings.”
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