„As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.“

— Meister Eckhart

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„No man hath seen God at any time, if we love one another God dwelleth in us. — If a man say I love God & hateth his brother he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen?“
— Isaac Newton
„Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.“
— Orson Welles
„Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.“
— Paul of Tarsus