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Love
Poems Readings and Quotations |
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We hope you enjoy reading our collection of readings that
are suitable for religious services only (because of their
religious content or meaning). Please note, you must obtain
the prior approval of your church minister for any reading
you wish to include in your service.
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Lord,
make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, Grant that we may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel
that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all
labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with
each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the
silent unspoken memories?
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Love
is a mighty power, a great and complete good.
Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
all bitterness sweet and acceptable.
Nothing is sweeter than love,
Nothing stronger,
Nothing higher,
Nothing wider,
Nothing more pleasant,
Nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born
of God.
Love flies, runs and leaps for joy.
It is free and unrestrained.
Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds.
Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil,
attempts things beyond its strength.
Love sees nothing as impossible,
for it feels able to achieve all things.
It is strange and effective,
while those who lack love faint and fail.
Love is not fickle and sentimental,
nor is it intent on vanities.
Like a living flame and a burning torch,
it surges upward and surely surmounts every obstacle.
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Your
friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow
with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and
your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you
seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay"
in your own mind, nor do you with hold the "aye."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his
heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires,
all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which
you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain
to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening
of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure
of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only
the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb
of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your
friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him
always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need,
but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship let
there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew
of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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May
the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
May
God be with you and bless you;
May you see your children's children.
May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.
May
the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
And may the hand of a friend always be near.
May
green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you.
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