Bonaventure: Quotes about making love

Bonaventure was franciscan, bishop, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, catholic saint. Explore interesting quotes on making love.
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“Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolent he ought to be feared.”

Bonaventure

The Virtues of a Religious Superior

Love , Fear , Making love

“The virtue of gratitude is extremely commendable and pleasing in the sight of God, as its opposite is a detestable vice before him. Of which subject, thus speaks St. Bernard: Learn to be thankful for every grace received. Consider diligently the favors heaped upon you, that no gift of God be defrauded of the due return of gratitude and thanksgiving you ought to make, whether the gift be great, middling, or little.”

Bonaventure

Life of Christ

God , Gratitude , Making love , Learning

“But the soul cannot have any virtue if God is not loved with all the heart; for from that love flows the fulness of all grace, and without it no grace can flow into the soul, nor can it abide in it.”

Bonaventure

Life of Christ

God , Soul , Heart , Love

“Let us not believe that it is enough to read without unction, to speculate without devotion, to investigate without wonder, to observe without joy, to act without godly zeal, to know without love, to understand without humility, to strive without divine grace, or to reflect as a mirror without divinely inspired wisdom.”

Bonaventure

The Journey of the Mind to God

Reading , Understanding , Joy , Love