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“The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.”

Ifs Knows Men Love Heart Persons Soul Helping Christian Desire Hate Passion Hatred Filled Faults Bounds Delight Every Man Sensual God Love Indescribable

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.”

“When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.”

Men Love Whole Spiritual Form Holy Constitution Filled Ghost Altered Holy Ghost

Book:D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader

Source: D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader

“The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.”

People Men Love Mind Character Helping Passion Strength Determination Filled Driven Violent Lasting Strength Of Character

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.”

Love Happiness Filled Lust Romantic Love Love Lust

Author:Douglas Horton

“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”

Love Feelings Friendship Food Cooking Filled Culinary Bitterness Champagne Beef Sparkling Drinking Champagne Champagne Drinking Roast Beef Roast Chicken

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals