“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
The Problem of Pain (1940)
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Clive Staples Lewis272
Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963Related quotes
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
Chap. 1: "To Whom Much is Forgiven..."
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Julia Cameron (1948) American writer
Blessings (1998)
Context: Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic — love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Lorsque les femmes nous aiment, elles nous pardonnent tout, même nos crimes; lorsqu'elles ne nous aiment pas, elles ne nous pardonnent rien, pas même nos vertus! <br class="br"> La Muse du Département http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Muse_du_d%C3%A9partement_-_II_-_34 (1843), translated by James Waring, part II, ch. XXXIV (part XIII in the translated version).
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
A New Slant on Life (1998).
