The imagination is so delicate that sometimes even words wound it

Saturday, October 3, 2009

The Love

The love for equals is a human thing - of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles.

The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing - the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world.

The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing - to love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich, of the black man for the white man. The world is always bewildered by its saints.

And then there is the love for the enemy - love for the one who does not love you but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured’s love for the torturer. This is God’s love. It conquers the world.
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— Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

3 inspired and motivated:

Vinz said...

Great lines..

There is one love..which hurts too..!!

Jack said...

A D,

Second one yes. Third one, a lot of persons show it whether real or fake. Last one very difficult and if you can reach this stage you are beyond hurt.

Take care

oRange* said...

hey, i loved it ..
AD strikes again :D

great!

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