🕇🙏 "Do not claim to have absolute knowledge... No matter how much you... (Annâya, Mont-Liban, Lebanon)
🕇🙏 "Do not claim to have absolute knowledge... No matter how much you know, if you don't love, you will not understand; even if you know much.
Love is greater than intelligence. The logic of love is more exalted than the logic of intelligence.
Knowledge devoid of love is devoid of the spirit and destructive to man... Human beings, through their knowledge void of love, have made the earth ill; their food has become their poison and their drink their thirst, their medicine their illness. Their air is choking them, their rest is fatigue, and their peace anxiety. Their joy is sadness and their happiness suffering. Their truth is illusion, and their illusion truth, and their light has become darkness...
...Their theories are veiling their sight.
Their buildings are rising, their morals are declining.
Their possessions are increasing, their values are decreasing.
Their words are increasing and their prayers; decreasing.
Their interests are deep, their relationships are shallow.
Their window displays are full, their inside is empty.
Their roads are broadening, while their vision is becoming narrower. Their roads are numerous, but don't lead them to one another.
Their means of communication are many, but not bringing them to each other.
Their beds are big, strong and comfortable, and their families are small and disunited...
They know how to hurry but they don't know how to wait. They hurry to acquire their livelihood, but forget to ensure their living and their lives. They rush quickly to the outside and neglect the inside...
...Man will keep living in grief and worry, and will not be content or quench his thirst until he is united with himself in the heart of God.
Reach out to each other, look at each other, listen to each other, greet each other, console each other with words of love and encouragement, get out of yourselves (and go) to one another, and embrace one another in the love of Christ..." - #SaintCharbel #spreadlove ❤
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