— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
Quelle: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 166.
„Be worthy love, and love will come.“
— Louisa May Alcott, buch Little Women
Quelle: Little Women
Letzte Aktualisierung 15. Oktober 2020. Geschichte
Louisa May Alcott7
US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin 1832 - 1888Ähnliche Zitate
„I am the Divine Beloved worthy of being loved because I am Love.“
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
Final Message (6 January 1969).
General sources
Kontext: To love Me for what I may give you is not loving Me at all. To sacrifice anything in My cause to gain something for yourself is like a blind man sacrificing his eyes for sight. I am the Divine Beloved worthy of being loved because I am Love. He who loves Me because of this will be blessed with unlimited sight and will see Me as I am.
„And you must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.“
— William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850
Stanza 11.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)
„When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.“
— Euripidés ancient Athenian playwright -480 - -406 v.Chr
— Walther von der Vogelweide Middle High German lyric poet 1170 - 1230
Liebe machet schoene wîp:
desn mac diu schoene niht getuon, sin machet niemer lieben lîp.
"Herzeliebez vrowelîn", line 17; translation from Frederick Goldin German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor, 1973) p. 121.
— Brené Brown US writer and professor 1965
Quelle: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968
Letter to Dorothy Day, quoted in Catholic Voices in a World on Fire (2005) by Stephen Hand, p. 180.
Kontext: Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.
„Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.“
— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968
Letter to Dorothy Day, quoted in Catholic Voices in a World on Fire (2005) by Stephen Hand, p. 180.
Kontext: Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.
— Matthew Arnold, buch Culture and Anarchy
Quelle: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
„Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.“
— Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941
Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)
„I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.“
— Walter Hilton English Augustinian mystic. 1340 - 1396
Book II, ch. 22 (p. 160)
The Ladder of Perfection (1494)
— Charles Hartshorne Philosopher 1897 - 2000
The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne (1991), edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, p. 700
— Frithjof Schuon, buch The Transfiguration of Man
[2005, The Transfiguration of Man, World Wisdom, 109, 978-0-94153219-8]
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