Love is powerful beyond measure

• Love is metaphysical gravity. Buckminster Fuller
• Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Rumi
• Love heals, forgives, and makes whole. Ernest Holmes
• With our love, we could save the world. George Harrison
• I believe in the compelling power of love. Theodore Dreiser
• With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda
• In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Janos Arany
• Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify. Geoff Ryman
• A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. Rumi
• Let the fear go, and live your life with the power of love. Ralph Marston
• Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again.
• We can do no great things-only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln
• There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. Rhonda Byrne
• We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. Morihei Ueshiba
• I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love. Michael Landon
• One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles
• What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love. William Sloane Coffin
• Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love. Oprah Winfrey
• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. Mahatma Gandhi
• The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love. Kenneth E. Boulding
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix
• Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love. Bryant H. McGill
• If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. Emmet Fox
• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love. Luther Vandross
• Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind. Edmund Spenser
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
• It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. Alan Paton
• Love is cure, Love is power, Love is the magic of changes.  Love is the mirror, of divine beauty!  Rumi
• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde
• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Arthur Baldwin
• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Teresa of Avila
• Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Mahatma Gandhi
• The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time. Anodea Judith
• The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. Peace Pilgrim
• For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that’s the power of love. Jada Pinkett Smith
• When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth. Marianne Williamson
• Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world. Gary Zukav
• Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome. Deepak Chopra
• There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance. Leonard Jacobson
• When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• When love and spirit are brought together, their power can accomplish anything. Then love, power, and spirit are one. Deepak Chopra
• It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart. Steve Rizzo
• The word courage comes from the French word ‘coeur’, which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love. Alan Cohen
• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. Alan Paton
• Love can heal. Love can renew. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us with its power. Love can bring us closer to God. Deepak Chopra
• There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself. Madame de Stael
• Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love. Nachman of Breslov
• The life that goes out in love to all life is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power. Ralph Waldo Trine
• I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. Rumi
• Love is man’s natural endowment, but he doesn’t know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power. Dick Gregory
• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. William E. Gladstone
• None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. Mother Teresa
• We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression. F. Skinner
• I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. Theodore Dreiser
• When the heart is open and balanced, we enter into a state of attraction to what we need, because the power of love is magnetic and harmonious. Sonia Choquette
• Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. Morihei Ueshiba
• When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition. Bell Hooks
• What is your personal definition of good? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power. Bill Drayton
• While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal… They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power. Debashis Chatterjee
• This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness. Nirmala Srivastava
• The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that’s the power of love. Huey Lewis
• The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love.  This power of love does all the living work.  Nirmala Srivastava
• Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. Viktor Frankl
• Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species. Dean Ornish
• For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us. James Dillet Freeman
• The more love you give in your day-to-day life, the greater the magnetic power of love you have in the field around you, and everything you want will fall at your feet. Rhonda Byrne
• Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful. Bill Walton
• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. Dean Ornish
• As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life. Susan Jeffers
• Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be. Charles R. Swindoll
• Love and gratitude can part seas… It can move mountains and it can create miracles. The power of love and gratitude will dissolve all negativity in our lives no matter what the form has taken. Rhonda Byrne
• As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm. John Templeton
• The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind. David Jeremiah
• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Mahatma Gandhi
• In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you. Rajneesh
• I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. Og Mandino
• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love Abdu’l-Bahá
• There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrqp every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed. Rhonda Byrne
• Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power. Naomi Judd
• Eloquent and moving… an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love – beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate – and passionate – authentic life. Mira Bartok
• Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent. Frederick Buechner
• THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love. Morihei Ueshiba
• If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer. Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again. Love heals, forgives, and makes whole. Ernest Holmes
• So how do you fall in love with life? The same way you fall in love with another person — you adore everything about them! You fall in love with another person by seeing only love, hearing only love, speaking only love, and by feeling love with all your heart! And that is exactly how you use the ultimate power of love in love with life. Rhonda Byrne
• The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind. Paul Brunton
• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you. Marianne Williamson
• There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art. Saint Francis de Sales
• When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully – in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love. Eknath Easwaran

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It is the very power of God

• I experience God as the power of love. John Shelby Spong
• To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power. Enzio Busche
• I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don’t say that’s what God is; I say that’s my experience of God. John Shelby Spong
• I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live, I experience God as the power of love calling me to love. John Shelby Spong
• Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a desire to enslave others, this power is not a destructive force. This power is the very source of creation. This power is creativity. And this power will transform you totally into a new being. It has no concern with anybody. Its whole concern is to bring your seeds to their ultimate flowering. Rajneesh