Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Interpretation
Love connects us to our true purpose in life and is found in relationships with others.
This quote emphasizes the idea that our ultimate goal in life, or our true destiny, is rooted in love. It suggests that the meaning of life cannot be discovered in solitude but rather through meaningful connections with others, highlighting the importance of relationships in shaping our existence and understanding of ourselves.
In practice
During a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of love in marriage.
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
You are made in the image of what you desire.
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!
I do not accept any less than someone just as real, as fabulous!
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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