A Quote for the Day

  Hope is confidently expecting that God's love never changes and His mercy never forsakes.

Giving away money does not show love (money can be given even with hatred and indifference). Giving away love shows love that loves even without the money.

We are most loved when we were the hardest to forgive, and still forgiven.

There is a point when anger ceases to be an act of love if ever it has started as one. Good feelings nourish love. Negative emotions like anger strangle it.

Those who love you unconditionally build up your store of graces and genuine love. Those who use you to their selfish ends siphon your energy to love unconditionally. The former are your true family; the latter are the people to reach out for your ministry.

If ever you will miss finding God in yourself, look around you. You will see how much God showers them with unconditional love.

To care for someone makes sense only when that someone knows about it. Let it be know so that wonderful things happen to your life and the others.

The painful burden of letting go weighs lighter than the torment of watching your loved one deteriorates before your very eyes, and not able to do something about it. Love is not measured in how much you keep but in how much you let go in the name of that love.

Encountering oppositions and criticisms can mean that we have at last taken a stand worthy of our gifts. But what we need to be careful about in facing the strong winds in our lives is the temptation to forget that we stood strong and tall against the elements not on our own strength but through the grace of God that works in us. Forgetting this truth will make the triumph against the wind as meaningless as our fall before it. For either way does not make us closer to the God who loves us endlessly.

When love becomes a temptation, responding to that love becomes a sin. Love becomes a fleeting romantic emotion, desperately hoping to last long. And the culprit is a perverted perception that leads to an erroneous understanding of love .

A bum is a human being whose fortunes, in his doing or not, turn against him, leaving him alone on the streets, alone in a world full of strangers. These are the people who lost his brothers and sisters when all around those who could become ones never take the time to look at him with love.

It is very difficult to love someone you have learned to fear.

Those who forgives the most loves the most. Only those who does not love refuse to forgive.

We learn to love because we've been loved first. In the same way, we give because we have already received so much.

We learn to love the most when we lost the one we love. We tend to take them for granted wrongly assuming they will always be there. It is time to cherish them when they are still alive. For eternity may still be too long when we meet them again.

 Sometimes when a relationship is in extreme trial, all you can hold on are the memories of those happy moments in time and the faith of the constant love of the other. This is easier in a relationship between persons where presence is mediated with the senses. It is much more difficult in a person's relationship with God; all the soul has to do is to follow that darkness with only the faith of God's love providing a glimmering light.

Love without truth is a deception. Truth without love is a lie. True love is only so when based on truth. Truth becomes real when infused with love.

From life's sorrows and despair, only love can rescue us. Happy Valentine's Day! May love so overrule today that no sorrow or despair can even touch your heart. 

Unlike the perfect and ever-giving love of God, human love is imperfect at best. Human love cannot give all the time; it also thinks of what it can get. It is the nature of mankind to need things for themselves, thus they need to get. The best that human love can attain is to give more than it prefers to receive. And this giving and taking go beyond those things that can be counted. It includes small things that are very valuable to the other. When human love fails, it is because the man or woman has sought to get or not give more than it gives or receives, respectively. And it is one more story in the tragic history of failed loves. But there is another way to turn the situation for the better. The person must go back to the love of God. There he or she will be nourished back, and learn to love again the way God loves even in his or her most imperfect ways. 

We give most sincerely when we do not expect even a 'Thank You' for our gifts. The joy of giving comes from a heart overflowing with so much love for others, it simply rejoices in the chance and the privelege of being able to give to others. And no personal credit for such love fits an ever-joyful giver, but a gratitude towards God for chosing us as His instruments in making others experience His love for them.