Agape – Quotes

Fasting and feasting are

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape. Elise M. Boulding

It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today – the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God. David Jeremiah

Christ is a persuasion,

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to … Read more

God’s love, and hence

God’s love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness. David Bentley Hart

While we do our

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. Chinua Achebe

The Greeks were smarter

The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There’s storge, which is family love. That’s not us. There’s eros, which is sexual love. There’s philia, which is brotherly love. And then there’s the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That’s transcendental love, like when you place … Read more

Parents were the only

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. Ann Brashares

What I am trying

What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can direct us towards the original. I was recently at the Louvre Museum and I was filming people who were viewing the Mona Lisa. I noticed the number of ordinary people, astonished, mouths agape, standing still for long stretches looking at the work, and I wondered, Where does this come from? Are these people all art connoisseurs? They are like me; through the years, we’ve seen this work in our schoolbooks or art history books, but when we stand before the original, we hold our breath.
Abbas Kiarostami