Quotes about Beloved
when it's a question of wahre Liebe, true love, the beloved hardly matters.
- Milan Kundera
Lord, you call us out of captivity into the freedom of your beloved community. As we pass through the wilderness spaces of our lives, grant us ears to hear you, eyes to see you, and hearts that ache for you, that we might not turn away from the brothers and sisters who help us remember who we are. Amen.
- Shane Claiborne
To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
- St. Augustine
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
- Stephen Sondheim
Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.
- Teresa of Avila
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children.
- Eugene Peterson
Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's beloved daughter or son. That's the truth of who you are.
- Henri Nouwen
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
- CS Lewis
I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.
- Maya Angelou
Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie—unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him—perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol—and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. He calls you.
- Beth Moore