John Lancaster Spalding: Quotes about love

John Lancaster Spalding was Catholic bishop. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 241

“We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 21

“As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 220

“If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 148

“In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 233

“Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 234-235

“As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 227

“When with all thy heart thou strivest to live with truth and love, couldst thou do anything better? … If this be thy life, thou shalt not deem it a misfortune to lack the things men most crave and toil for.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 276

“No pure delight cheers the farmer whose mind is intent on the price he shall get for his crops rather than on the joy there is in tilling them and seeing them grow and ripen: for such an one does not love the land nor his home nor any of the most beautiful and sacred things, but tends to become like the brute that eats and sleeps and dies. His thoughts are with what feeds the animal, and that which nourishes the human is hidden from him.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 168

“As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 21

“Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul—this is the miser’s curse—this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 203