In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven
Interpretation
The deepest expressions of love often come from our suffering, even if they go unnoticed by others.
In this quote, Chiara Lubich emphasizes the profound impact that love, intertwined with suffering, can have on our lives and the spiritual realm. While many actions and words may go unnoticed, the heartfelt cries born from love and pain are powerful enough to reach a divine presence, suggesting that true connection and communication with the heavens is found in our most vulnerable moments.
In practice
During a heartfelt speech at a charity event, one might say this quote to highlight the importance of compassion.
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute at some time or other to Love, and it is vain to strive to avoid it. I was a philosopher, yet this tyrant of the mind triumphed over all my wisdom; his darts were of greater force than all my reasonings, and with a sweet constraint he led me wherever he pleased.
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands that sculpted sweetness from sullen flesh, that traced breast and ignited hips, opening, kneading. Flesh becomes bread in the heat of those hands, braided and rising.
You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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