Promises

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"Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said. 

Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?” 

I didn’t answer. I didn’t have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

~ John Green 

Promises

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"Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said. 

Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?” 

I didn’t answer. I didn’t have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

~ John Green 

Quote on philotheia (love for God)

Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other.
When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God. ”

~ John Green

Quote on philotheia (love for God)

Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other.
When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God. ”

~ John Green