"Lastingness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by one power, and that the greatest in the world, Love. Real love, he asks; not the degraded things to which men give that great name, as to every passing gust of feeling, to every unworthy untamed emotion: but the divine quality, when to the "lastingness," which he requires, is also joined that which is the inner essence of Love, viz., sacrifice. "Love is a life," he writes, "joining together the loving and the loved." And then he remembers the other ...
— The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises • Richard Rolle of Hampole |
