“Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.” IfsBelieveMayFeelingsImaginationLove IsSeeingPureSentimentalPure Love Book:Spiritual Progress Source: Spiritual Progress
“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.” ProblemPurposeJusticeAbilityLove IsAchieveNeededDemandUnderstoodConceptsOppositesAnd LoveRealizationDenialSentimentalRecklessResignationWithout LoveAbusiveCorrectingImplementingPolar OppositesAgainst LoveConcept Of Love Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to the virtue of chastity, whose most dangerous enemy is the softness of the mind. The refinements of life corrupt while they polish the intercourse of the sexes. The gross appetite of love becomes most dangerous when it is elevated, or rather, indeed, disguised by sentimental passion.” MindHumansHas BeensSeemsPassionSexLove IsEnemyHistoryVirtueProgressDangerousHuman NatureAppetiteSentimentalGrossPolishIntercourseCivilisationChastityRoman EmpireRefinementSoftness Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire