“Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He has prayed, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He has spoken, He has sung, The Word was with God.”
Olivier Messiaen
“He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men.”
William Blake
“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things: / Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.”
Bible
“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
“I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.”
“He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved”
Aristotle
