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“If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.”

“My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.”

Men Soul Justice Love Is Fire Mercy Shame Blow Smoke Fuel Breasts Metals Ashes Coal Sigh Scorn Thorns Furnaces

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

“Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.”

Source: Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

“All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.”

Self Philosophy Humanity Justice Love Is Self Love Beneficence

Author:Epicurus

“Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking.”

Thinking Real Happens Form Justice Love Is Projects Critical Radical Liberation Rebellion Engagement Real Love Critical Thinking

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.”

Ifs Love Justice Love Is Pleasure Marriage Fire Alive Share Smart Difficulty Senses Cease Honour Grounded Usefulness Stale Constancy Pleasure Love

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.”

People Thinking Feels Self Term Justice Love Is West Misunderstood

Author:Bell Hooks

“Love is stronger than justice.”

Love Justice Love Is Stronger Sweet Love Short Love

Author:Sting

“If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.”

Ifs Would Be Suffering Dies Justice Love Is Willing Son Demand Willingness His Love

Book:For Your Joy

Source: For Your Joy

“Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.”

Ifs Way Ends States Reason Nations Social Justice Love Is Violence Pure Social Justice Blind Instance Communism Reasonable Bad Things Fascism Schemes Atheistic Pure Love Blind Love

Author:Francis George

“When love is gone, there's always justice.”

Justice Love Is Gone

Author:Laurie Anderson