“There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 111.
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“Loves those who cry with their hearts, those who fight with honor and those who love for love.”
Original: (it) Ama chi piange con il cuore, chi lotta con onore e chi ama per amore.
Source: prevale.net

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.”
Source: War and Peace

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 150.

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
Variant: And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
Source: The Winter Ghosts

“Be good, love the Lord, pray for those who do not know Him. What a great grace it is to know God!”
Quoted in "Josephine Bakhita (1869-1947)", The Holy See https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20001001_giuseppina-bakhita_en.html.

Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“God loves only those who are not concerned with anything else.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 80