Beloved Quotes

• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Chinese
  • Novel
  • Gas

• My conscience does not render a positive verdict in God’s courtroom when I look inside myself. The only reason I can sleep well at night is that even though my heart is filled with corruption and even though I am not doing my best to please him, I have in heaven at the Father’s right hand the beloved Son, who has not only done his best for himself but has fulfilled all righteousness for me in my place.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Night

• Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Love
  • Beloved
  • Alters

• He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

  

  William Blake
  • Men
  • Hurt
  • Beloved

• He has held me when I have had no more strength and have wondered how I would ever make it. He has held me when I have felt defeated by all that I had to do. When I have run to my El Shaddai, I have never come away wanting. He is my all-sufficient One. O Beloved, do you understand? Have you experienced Him as your El Shaddai? If not, He is waiting - arms opened wide - for you.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Running
  • Waiting
  • Optimistic

• The real beloved is your beginning and your end. When you find that one, You'll no longer expect anything else

  

  Rumi
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Find

• I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Loved
  • Beloved

• We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Revolution
  • Christ
  • Poor

• All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • World
  • Water
  • Memories

• Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Beautiful
  • Eye
  • Rose

• BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Tree
  • Holy

• For love reflects the thing beloved.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Love
  • Beloved
  • Reflects

• Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Details
  • Beloved

• He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.

  

  Nizami Ganjavi
  • Afraid
  • Beloved
  • Searches

• Disney is beloved again. They can now attract the talent again and they can hold onto the talent again. People trust them again. It's all return since they went back to the why.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Talent
  • Return

• And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Earth
  • Beloved

• Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Illusion
  • True Self

• Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

  

  Bulleh Shah
  • Beloved

• What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Separate
  • Pretending
  • Beloved

• The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

  

  Moliere
  • Long
  • Absence
  • Beloved

• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  

  Rumi
  • Lovers
  • Themselves
  • Each Other

• Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Country
  • Grows
  • Beloved

• Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.

  

  Francine Rivers
  • Giving
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!

  

  Catharine Sedgwick
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Wonder

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