#love

Passages on love from many traditions.

“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up”

— 1 Corinthians 13:4 (KJV) · Christianity · #love · source

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”

— 1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV) · Christianity · #love · source

“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”

— John 13:34 (KJV) · Christianity · #love · source

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God”

— 1 John 4:7 (KJV) · Christianity · #love · source

“for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”

— 1 Peter 4:8 (KJV) · Christianity · #love · source

“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”

— Colossians 3:14 (KJV) · Christianity · #love · source

“thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”

— Leviticus 19:18 (KJV) · Judaism · #love · source

“love those men whom thy fate it is to live with; but love them truly.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VI (trans. Meric Casaubon) · Stoicism · #love · source

“Every moment the voice of Love is coming from left and right.”

— Rumi, Divani Shamsi Tabriz (trans. R. A. Nicholson), in F. Hadland Davis, The Persian Mystics (1907) · Sufism · #love · source

“This is the House of Love, which has no bound or end.”

— Rumi, Divani Shamsi Tabriz (trans. R. A. Nicholson), in The Persian Mystics (1907) · Sufism · #love · source

“'Tis Love and the Lover that live to all Eternity;”

— Rumi, Divani Shamsi Tabriz (trans. R. A. Nicholson), in The Persian Mystics (1907) · Sufism · #love · source

“In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love”

— Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, Persian 3 (trans. Shoghi Effendi) · Baha'i · #love · source

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