"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."

Love, Care, Reward

19

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."

Exlpore more Love quotes

"Love is all we need."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Love, Need, Essential, Basic

"He who knows how to use the power of love is the most powerful."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Power, Strength, Peace

"Love is as clear as water from a pitcher."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Clarity, Water

"Love is kind. Kind is love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Love, Kind, Compassion, Goodness

"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Love, Deep, Inexhaustible, Ocean

"Love is the ultimate style."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Style, Life, Fashion

"Love awakens the divine-spirit of soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Love, Awakens, Divine, Soul

"Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Beauty, Ugliness

"To feel the love, feel through your heart, not through your mind, mind is judgmental but heart is kind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Heart, Mind, Judgment

"Love without reason-bloom without season."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Bloom, Seasons, Unconditional

Explore more quotes by Thomas Merton

"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."

Peace, God

"You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope."

Philosophy, Possibility, Courage, Hope, Faith

"And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me also each great sin with greater graces.For even as I killed You,You made Yourself a greater thief than any in Your company,Stealing my sins into Your dying life,Robbing me even of my death."

Spiritual, Sacrifice, Redemption, Sin, Faith

"The ever-changing reality in the midst of which we live should awaken us to the possibility of an uninterrupted dialogue with God. By this I do not mean continuous "talk, or a frivolously conversational form of affective prayer which is sometimes cultivated in convents, but a dialogue of love and of choice. A dialogue of deep wills."

Religion, Spiritual, Faith, Dialogue, Love

"My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me."

Spiritual, Mystery, Faith, Guidance, Trust

"I was entering into a moral universe in which I would be related to every other rational being, and in which whole masses of us, as thick as swarming bees, would drag one another along towards some common end of good or evil, peace or war."

Ethics, Morality, Responsibility, Humanity

"Do not desire chiefly to be cherished and consoled by God; desire above all to love Him.Do not anxiously desire to have others find consolation in God, but rather help them to love God.Do not seek consolation in talking about God, but speak of Him in order that He may be glorified.If you truly love Him, nothing can console you but His glory. And if you seek His glory before everything else, then you will also be humble enough to receive consolation from His hand: accepting it chiefly because, in showing His mercy to us, He is glorified in our souls."

Spiritual, Faith, Love, God, Devotion

"As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point to set fire to the human spirit."

Spiritual, Faith, Inspirational, Christ

"He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways."

Faith, God, Surprise, Life

"I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me."

Spiritual, Thought, Reflection, Release, Acceptance