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  1    I, 3   |       incumbent on us to return His love, who lovingly guides us
  2    I, 4   |         knowledge, hope, obedience, love all alike. And those whose
  3    I, 4   |       salvation; common to them are love and training. "For in this
  4    I, 5   |          but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up to Him in all
  5    I, 6   |        swelling out from breasts of love. So that the whole matter
  6    I, 6   |           the only virgin mother. I love to call her the Church.
  7    I, 6   |           children with the milk of love, and those only are truly
  8    I, 6   |             the Father's breasts of love supply milk. Further, the
  9    I, 6   |       produces stronger impulses to love than the~ procreating of
 10    I, 6   |           For the Word blended with love at once cures our passions
 11    I, 7   |     appeared, and fear is turned to love, and that mystic angel is
 12    I, 7   |            exhortation, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God." Wherefore
 13    I, 7   |          unto you with a rod, or in love, in the spirit of meekness?"
 14    I, 8   |            of all, oblivious of His love, in that for us He became
 15    I, 8   |          exceeding greatness of His love with the nature of each
 16    I, 8   |            and with reason, will He love man, the noblest of all
 17    I, 8   |             true coadjutor of God's love to man. But the good is
 18    I, 8   |      approach to sin, and shows His love to man, still delaying,
 19    I, 8   |            See how God, through His love of goodness, seeks repentance;
 20    I, 8   |             silently, shows His own love for man. "I will avert,"
 21    I, 8   |           shows mercy to those that love Him." For He who placed
 22    I, 8   |             measured by equality of love, He is called righteous. "
 23    I, 8   |          the medicine of the divine love to man, by which the blush
 24    I, 8   |        admonition anger) is full of love to man, God condescending
 25    I, 9   |         towards them,"--although we love our children exceedingly,
 26    I, 9   |             please him, have little love for him, seeing they do
 27    I, 9   |             very great proof of His love, that, though knowing well
 28    I, 9   |           would take place, and His love in affording an opportunity
 29    I, 9   |             tacitly alluding to the love for children that characterizes
 30    I, 9   |           if you do not receive His love, ye shall know His power.
 31    I, 9   |             while they despised His love: for, for the most part,
 32    I, 9   |          And the nature of all that love was the source of righteousness--
 33    I, 10  |        Moses, too, by reason of the love He has to man, He promises
 34    I, 10  |            He calls the wise to the love of it. And, granting pardon
 35    I, 10  |          thus not understanding its love to man; on their account,
 36    I, 11  |          PROPHETS.~ The mode of His love and His instruction we have
 37    I, 12  |            profusion; but peace and love, simple and quiet sisters,
 38    I, 12  |            and all that pertains to love of truth, love of man, and
 39    I, 12  |          pertains to love of truth, love of man, and love of excellence.
 40    I, 12  |             truth, love of man, and love of excellence. And so, in
 41   II, 1   |             the gullets and furious love for suppers"--according
 42   II, 1   |     deceived it with pleasures. But love (agape) is in truth celestial
 43   II, 1   |          things, hopeth all things. Love never faileth." "Blessed
 44   II, 1   |          all my goods, and have not love, I am nothing." On this
 45   II, 1   |              I am nothing." On this love alone depend the law and
 46   II, 1   |            Word; and if "thou shalt love the Lord thy God and thy
 47   II, 1   |          For the supper is made for love, but the supper is not love (
 48   II, 1   |         love, but the supper is not love (agape); only a proof of
 49   II, 1   |             on the holy assembly of love, the heavenly Church. Love,
 50   II, 1   |          love, the heavenly Church. Love, then, is something pure
 51   II, 1   |           the care of discipline is love," as Wisdom says; "and love
 52   II, 1   |         love," as Wisdom says; "and love is the keeping of the law."
 53   II, 1   |         joys have an inspiration of love from the public nutriment,
 54   II, 1   |            to everlasting dainties. Love (agape), then, is not a
 55   II, 1   |             entertainment depend on love. For it is said, "Let the
 56   II, 1   |           sphere of discipline. For love is a good nurse for communication;
 57   II, 1   |         them tacitly of the name of love (agape), since their feasting
 58   II, 1   |             meat." "And herbs, with love, are better than a calf
 59   II, 1   |           above, that herbs are not love, but that our meals are
 60   II, 1   |          meals are to be taken with love; and in these the medium
 61   II, 2   |            pour it in as water from love of wine. For both are works
 62   II, 3   |          gold fit for dung. But now love of money is found to be
 63   II, 4   |         that is, of sorrow. And let love, and intoxication, and senseless
 64   II, 4   |             law. For "if thou shalt love the Lord try God," and then "
 65   II, 4   |        having enjoyed His grace and love, and so go straight to sleep. "
 66   II, 8   |     proclaimed deliverance from the love of finery, and the affliction
 67   II, 8   |          the acceptable offering of love, the spiritual fragrance,
 68   II, 8   |          the head heavy nor provoke love, and are not redolent of
 69   II, 10  |              and made free from the love of corruption, shall consign
 70   II, 11  |         imagine ought to be said of love of ornament, and dyeing
 71   II, 11  | interdicting respectable women from love of ornament, and allowing
 72   II, 11  |             the beautiful, that is, love of finery, not the beautiful
 73   II, 11  |       perishable palaces, where are love of display, love of popularity,
 74   II, 11  |          where are love of display, love of popularity, and flattery
 75   II, 13  |         society. But more worthy of love is that: "I have: why should
 76   II, 13  |            the command, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"--
 77   II, 13  |            store of gold."~ But the love of ornament, which is far
 78   II, 13  |           body for itself, when the love of the beautiful has changed
 79   II, 13  |           disgraceful; and in their love for ostentation disfigure
 80  III, 1   |              a pard, or a big sow."~Love of ornament has degenerated
 81  III, 1   |              another beauty of men--love. "And love," according to
 82  III, 1   |           beauty of men--love. "And love," according to the apostle, "
 83  III, 1   |        which belongs to it; but the love of finery seeks what is
 84  III, 1   |             God, and the Word, from love. And that the Lord Himself
 85  III, 2   |             women into harlots. For love of display is not for a
 86  III, 2   |         diverting our inclinations. Love of dainties and love of
 87  III, 2   |  inclinations. Love of dainties and love of wine, though great vices,
 88  III, 3   |           For not being free of the love of finery, they are not
 89  III, 6   |            or pompously; nor is the love of the beautiful to be turned
 90  III, 7   |           the many is alien to true love for the beautiful and to
 91  III, 7   |     ignorance of what is excellent. Love of wealth displaces a man
 92  III, 7   |             the benignant spring of love, by communicating of its
 93  III, 8   |          planning to dissuade us in love from evil, by the exhibition
 94  III, 8   |             and burning with insane love for boys; the All-seeing
 95  III, 11  |           passions of the man, land love the unvaried, and unambiguous,
 96  III, 11  |            their husbands by chaste love for them--a powerful and
 97  III, 11  |              fortitude, temperance, love of the good, modesty, than
 98  III, 11  |        meaning by this, clandestine love (from this point the Boeotian
 99  III, 11  |          The clandestine pursuit of love is something sweet"). But
100  III, 11  |          compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful,
101  III, 11  |            cause is idleness, and a love for frivolities~apart from
102  III, 11  |      believed? How, pray, dost thou love God and thy neighbour, if
103  III, 11  |     philosophize? And how dost thou love thyself, if thou dost not
104  III, 11  |           thyself, if thou dost not love life? It is said, I have
105  III, 11  |       silence, possessing unfeigned love, pure in body, pure in heart,
106  III, 11  |        inherit the kingdom of God."~Love and the Kiss of Charity.~
107  III, 11  |          God and our neighbour. But love is not proved by a kiss,
108  III, 11  |             with a kiss, not having love itself within. For this
109  III, 11  |           to us, that a kiss is not love. For the love meant is the
110  III, 11  |           kiss is not love. For the love meant is the love of God. "
111  III, 11  |           For the love meant is the love of God. "And this is the
112  III, 11  |            of God. "And this is the love of God," says John, "that
113  III, 11  |            whom we are commanded to love second similarly to God,
114  III, 11  |         from the fire which we call love, leading to the fire which
115  III, 12  |          the Lord says, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
116  III, 12  |       Especially conspicuous is the love of the Instructor set forth
117  III, 12  |            becomes less."~ Also of "love." "Love," He says, "covers
118  III, 12  |            less."~ Also of "love." "Love," He says, "covers a multitude
119  III, 12  |           against his neighbour, or love a false oath."~ The liars
120  III, 12  |          wise." And now He bids us "love our enemies, bless them
121  III, 12  |        Further, He banishes utterly love of glory, saying, "Woe to
122  III, 12  |           to you, Pharisees! for ye love the chief seat in the synagogues,
123  III, 12  |          dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved
124  III, 12  |          the Lord. And let husbands love their wives as Christ also
125  III, 12  |        those who are yoked together love one another "as their own
126  III, 12  |              with cheerfulness. Let love be without dissimulation.
127  III, 12  |           to another with brotherly love, in honour preferring one
128  III, 12  |          word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. Hereby
129  III, hymn|               We, the people of His love,~ Let us sing, nor ever