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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything. -- Peter Kreeft
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging. -- Peter Kreeft
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful. -- Rob Bell
Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes. -- Pope Francis
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I contend that those who Agape can only administer mercy and grace."~R. Alan Woods [2012] -- R. Alan Woods
Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape. -- Elise M. Boulding
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. -- Mother Teresa
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. -- Ann Brashares
There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances. -- Stephen Kendrick
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. -- Chinua Achebe
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. -- Peter Kreeft
What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's. -- Max Lucado
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love. -- Stephen Kendrick
It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God. -- David Jeremiah
How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of God as Agape is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds. -- John David Geib
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it. -- Paulo Coelho
Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will. -- Obert C. Tanner
Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have of love is of a man who's been tortured and hung upon a cross to die an excruciating death, this is something that human beings find very, very hard to understand as love. But it is the highest Christian image of love. -- Kevin Hart
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling. -- Colleen Hoover
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness. -- David Bentley Hart

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