Jacques Maritain - Love Quotes

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For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

Jacques Maritain

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"…... Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist...... she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

Jacques Maritain

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

Jacques Maritain

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Jacques Maritain

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

Jacques Maritain