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  Word of God  
 
Love is not boastful.
1 Corinthians 13:4
 


Let anyone who boasts, boast in the Lord.

 
1 Corinthians 1:31

 
 
  Word of God  
 
Love is patient.
1 Corinthians 13:4
 


Never yield to anger.

 
St. Benedict, 6th century

 
 
  Word of God  
 
Love bears all things.
1 Corinthians 13:7
 


Love endures everything, love is stronger than death;
love fears nothing.

 
St. Faustina Kowalska, 20th century

 
 
  Word of God  
 
Love bears all things;
love endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:7
 


Love is the source of all good things,
and the way that leads to heaven.

 
St. Fulgentius of Ruspe, 6th century

 
 
  Word of God  
 
Love is patient and kind,
it is not jealous or boastful.
1 Corinthians 13:4
 


Learn to love as God desires.

 
St. John of the Cross, 16th century

 
 
  Word of God  
 
God is love.
1 John 4:16
 


If God is love, charity should know no limit,
for God himself cannot be confined within limits.

 
St. Leo the Great, 5th century

 
 
  Word of God  
 
Whoever abides in love abides in God,
and God abides in him.
1 John 4:16
 


Love whoever is nearest to you
and look inside you to see where that love is coming from:
then, as far as you are capable, you will see God.

 
St. Augustine, 5th century

 
 
  Word of God  
 
Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Jude 1:21
 


Charity is the sweet and holy bond
which links the soul with its Creator;
it binds God with man and man with God.

 
St. Catherine of Siena, 14th century

 

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