A four stanza work, Living Flame of Love describes a greater intimacy, as the soul responds to God's love.

A two-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring soul, funk, and disco songs such as his two biggest hits, " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " and " Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe.

White produced, wrote and arranged their classic soul ballad, " Walking In The Rain With The One I Love ", which climbed to # 14 in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop chart and # 6 on the Billboard R & B chart in late 1972.

' He answered: ' " Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind " '; and, ' " Love your neighbor as yourself.

Aretha Franklin's 1967 recordings, such as " I Never Loved a Man ( The Way I Love You )", " Respect " ( originally sung by Otis Redding ), and " Do Right Woman, Do Right Man " ( written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn ), are considered the apogee of the soul genre, and were among its most commercially successful productions.

Australian soul singer / songwriters like Daniel Merriweather, has after several successful collaborations with artists such as Mark Ronson, released his official debut album, Love & War, in June 2009.

During in an interview on Later ... with Jools Holland, Love claimed the name for the band was inspired by a quote from Euripides ' Medea which read " there's a hole that pierces my soul.

Love ended the performance by chanting " God bless your soul ", throwing her guitar into the air, pushing over a microphone stand into the audience, and knocking over stereo equipment before exiting the stage.

" Other singles from the album included " Come Get to This ", which recalled Gaye's early Motown soul sound of the previous decade, while the suggestive " You Sure Love to Ball " reached modest success but was kept from being promoted by Motown due to its sexually explicit nature.

On May 28, 1964 Burke recorded two unreleased songs, and " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love " ( Atlantic 2241 ), that was also written by Burke ( but also credited to Bert Berns and Jerry Wexler ), which was Burke's most prominent bid for an enduring soul standard.

Individual session credits notwithstanding, what's indisputable is that the Stax house band ( Cropper, Jackson, Jones, and Steinberg, along with Cropper's Mar-Keys bandmate, bassist Donald “ Duck ” Dunn ; keyboardist Isaac Hayes ; and various horn players, most frequently Floyd Newman, Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love ) would set a standard for soul music.

That same year he wrote the song " To Love Somebody " with Robin for American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding, but Redding died in an aeroplane crash later that year, before having a chance to record the song, and Barry takes the lead vocal on that song.

The band opted to record a radically reworked cover version of " Tainted Love ", an obscure 1964 northern soul track sung originally by Gloria Jones ( the girlfriend of Marc Bolan at the time of his death ) and written by Ed Cobb of The Four Preps.

With Gamble & Huff, the O ' Jays ( now a trio after the departure of Isles and Massey ) emerged at the forefront of Philadelphia soul with " Back Stabbers " ( 1972 ), and topped the Billboard Hot 100 the following year with " Love Train ".

Their early works including " A Fool in Love ", " It's Gonna Work Out Fine ", " I Idolize You " and " River Deep-Mountain High " became high points in the development of soul music while their later works were cited for wildly interpretive re-arrangements of rock songs such as " I Want to Take You Higher " and " Proud Mary ", the latter song for which they won a Grammy Award.

The TV series Ghost Whisperer ( featuring Jennifer Love Hewitt ) in the late 2000s used a term " step-in " when one character died, but whose soul came back into an accident victim ( season 4, episode 7, " Threshold ").

Jennifer Love Hewitt was praised for her performance as Julie James by an Entertainment Weekly columnist stating that Hewitt knows how to scream with soul.

An influence looming large in the cultural development of soul and R & B singers from Sam Cooke to Prince, Eckstine was able to play it straight on his pop hits " Prisoner of Love ", " My Foolish Heart " and " I Apologize ".

He attended Booker T. Washington High School, the alma mater of Rufus Thomas and shared the hallowed halls with future stars like Isaac Hayes's writing partner David Porter ; saxophonist Andrew Love of The Memphis Horns ; soul singer / songwriter William Bell and Earth, Wind, & Fire's Maurice White.

In 1958 it produced the first recognized soul hit in Chicago, Jerry Butler and The Impressions ’ “ For Your Precious Love ”.

Chess Records, under A & R director and producer Roquel Billy Davis, featured such Chicago soul style acts as the vocal harmony groups The Dells (“ Stay In My Corner ”) and the Radiants (“ Voice Your Choice ”), female singers Jan Bradley (“ Mama Didn ’ t Lie ”), Fontella Bass (“ Rescue Me ”), and Jackie Ross (“ Selfish One ”), and male vocalists such as Bo Diddley's protégé Billy Stewart (“ I Do Love You ”).

With Gamble & Huff, the O ' Jays emerged at the forefront of Philadelphia soul with " Back Stabbers " ( 1972 ), a pop hit, and topped the U. S. singles charts the following year with " Love Train ".

Love is the crucial dilemma of experience for Mann's heroes.

or the Love For Three Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful, imaginative, colorful, and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet, The Stone Flower.

Old Order, acted and atonally sung by Grunnfeu Arapacis, the lovely Serbantian import, then entered and delivered the well-known invocation to the god Phineoppus, whereupon the stage is quite unexpectedly visited by a company of wandering Gorshek priests, symbolizing Love, Lust, Prudence and General Motors, respectively.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

Yet there is the classic case of the Gershwins' `` The Man I Love ''.

Love and compassion are components of all forms of Buddhism, and are focused on all beings equally: love is the wish that all beings be happy, and compassion is the wish that all beings be free from suffering.

Love confirms others in their freedom, shuns propaganda and masks, assures others of its presence, and is ultimately confirmed not by mere declarations from others, but by each person's experience and practice from within.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

Buddha said " Love all, so that you may not wish to kill any " This is a positive way of stating the principle of Ahimsa.

Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

His works on ascetism, include the aforementioned Life of St. Anthony, as well as a Discourse on Virginity, a short work on Love and Self-Control, and a treatise On Sickness and Health which is only preserved in fragments.

Love and Theft is the thirty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in September 2001 by Columbia Records.

Though often referred to without quotations, the correct title is " Love and Theft ".

As music critic Tim Riley notes, " singing Love and Theft shifts artfully between humble and ironic ...' I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound ,' he sings in ' Floater ,' which is either hilarious or horrifying, and probably a little of both.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " (" Returned Love "), for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795.

Though Oceania's Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace each have names with meanings deliberately opposite to their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward: " rehabilitated thought criminals " leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into genuinely loving Big Brother.

Courtney Michelle Love ( born Courtney Michelle Harrison ; July 9, 1964 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actress and artist.

Love responded to Erlandson's comments in a Twitter post, claiming " he's out of his mind, Hole is my band, my name, and my Trademark ".

That year, Love appeared in an episode of Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes with Robbie Nevil in a segment titled " C ' est la Vie ", in which she is dressed in vintage clothes and discussed " bag ladies ".

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

Love is also self-identified feminist, and has been noted throughout her career for her subversive feminism and " self-conscious parody of female sex roles ".