An Orthodox Christian eBook from Greece about Love...

The phrase, "I love you" 
 
Saint Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia, Holy Mount Athos, Greece (+1991)
 

The phrase, "I love you", is a humble thing to say. It is not simply said though. It is gained silently with the personality that you fashion. You fashion it, and the other may be mad at you. You are working and look as to ultimately hide it. But the other senses it and is attracted by it. If you love and you don't seek the love of others, all will come close to you. It is a mystery. Mystically you will love and they will understand it, and even while far away, they will send you their good feelings. Do you understand this? ... It is natural what I am telling you: to love selflessly!

Saints Quotes on Love

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

—St Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

—St. Gregory the Great

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

—St. Bede the Venerable

If you have love for the whole world, the whole world is beautiful.
—Mother Gavriella the Missionary, the "Ascetic of Love" (+1992)
This is my last will and testament: raise your prayers for everyone; your prayers will move the mountains. Love each other.
—St. Gabriel the New Confessor of Georgia (+1995)

My worst hell is to realize that I have saddened a beloved person.

—Blessed Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos (+1989)

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

—St. Basil the Great

I no longer fear God, but I love Him. For love casts out fear.
—St Anthony the Great

In this time of fasting and prayer, brethren, let us with all our hearts forgive anything real or imaginary we have against anyone. May we all devote ourselves to love, and let us consider one another as an incentive to love and good works, speaking in defense of one another, having good thoughts and dispositions within us before God and men. In this way our fasting will be laudable and blameless, and our requests to God while we fast will be readily received.
—St. Gregory Palamas, excerpt from Homily Seven: "On Fasting"

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