“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.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 399.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
François Fénelon43
Catholic bishop 1651–1715Related quotes
“We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970) American Christian radical
The Book of Ammon
Context: Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one with love, courage, and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi.
“Alone, as before, in the universe
Without hope and without love!..”
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) Russian writer, poet and painter
"The Demon" (1830)
Poems
“Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 45
