“The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.” WorldHandsBeliefLove IsGod LoveOur FamilyNeighborhoodFriendlyCatholicismSacramentsGod's LoveEucharistGod Is LoveKernelGod Is There Author:Andrew Greeley
“The beauty of having nothing to lose, is you learn the beauty of having everything to gain. This is where hope lives. Hope can’t be taken. Hope can’t be lost. Hope can’t be broken. When we are boiled down to what we are as people. We are not love, because we hope to love, we are not money or who we hold, because we hope to have and to hold. We are not religion or God, because we enter into belief in the hope we get something back for ourselves. We are not a soul. We are hope.” PeopleSoulBeliefLostLosesLove IsTakenBrokenGainsNothing To LoseLost Hope Author:Craig Stone
“The only thing that helps me keep faith is to stay in the truth of love because when you love someone - or many people - you believe in them and you believe in who they are and what they can do...then your belief has to go to an eternal presence because when you really care for someone you can't bear the thought of never seeing them again. You want that mystery of eternity to be real.” PeopleWantBelieveRealHelpingCareBeliefCan DoLove IsSeeingMysteryBearsEternalEternityHelp MeBeing RealLove SomeoneWhen You Love SomeoneKeep The Faith Author:Dolores Hart
“Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.” IfsLoveMadeStatesBeliefForceReligiousLove IsDangerousProduceHatredOperationsRegulationIntroducingBegetsReligious BeliefUnbeliefLike Love Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.” IfsFeelsBeliefLove IsQualitySpecialLoversEssentialsAbout YourselfDesirable Author:Martha Beck
“I think that I've always been on a search. I have my own kind of belief in love is the being, but I think that I've always been searching for truth and I think there's lots of truths and I think we should respect that in each other, and that's really what I wanted to bring across.” ThinkingShouldKindWantedBeliefMy OwnLove Is Author:Olivia Newton-John
“Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.” BelieveHumansSufferingDiesBeliefAbilityLove IsCreaturesBraveryRidiculousIrrelevantValidityGallantryAppropriateness Book:Job, a Comedy of Justice Source: Job, a Comedy of Justice