Without love and compassion for others, our own apparent love for Christ is fiction.

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"Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."

- Thomas Merton

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"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

- Thomas Merton

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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another."

- Thomas Merton

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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another."

- Thomas Merton

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"There is only one desire: to find the promised land and the freedom of a pure love that is without concern for anything else but love."

- Thomas Merton

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"Beauty is a gentle and loving heart."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"There is no greater beauty than kindness and compassion."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Selflessness is the most beautiful trait one can possess."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"A kind heart can bring light to the darkest of places."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

- Flora Edwards

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