Beloved Quotes
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.
4092 Brennan Manning
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
3991 C.S. Lewis
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.
3889 Toni Morrison
It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
3250 Brennan Manning
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
2064 Brennan Manning
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
3326 Prem Prakash
The yogi can relate to his Beloved in the form of a personal relationship-as a friend, a child, a spouse. He can cherish God in traditional religious performances–honoring saints, holy sites, and scriptures. He can hold God dear in the form of union - as his own Self, or in samadhi. All forms of God are equally suitable for love. (165)
1853 Toni Morrison
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
3153 Brennan Manning
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.
3421 Roman Payne
A glorious death would be in my
final breath to take before I die, to hear
one final time on my belovèd's mouth
the sound of her eternal sigh.
1318 C.S. Lewis
We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.
4295 Rumi
My Beloved
Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul
3524 Scott Hastie
Birth our night into day
And bathe it clean,
So that beloved things can glow
Together in a litter of light.
1210 Saurabh Sharma
To all the true lovers: Your unconditional love is the reason why flowers bloom.
To all the beloveds: You are the reason why universe came into existence.
1183 Subhajit Ganguly
My beloved isn't dazzling light, Darkness is my beloved – The reason I'm so fond of her…
3077 Subhajit Ganguly
Yet, the man never goes slow!
Feted against all the odds.
How? Nobody knows.
Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes...
1925 Brennan Manning
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152
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