Quotes related to Ephesians 5:2
Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
— Stephen Covey
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
— William Barclay
Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.
— Alveda King
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
— Evelyn Underhill
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
— Eugene Peterson
We are most ourselves when we love; we are most the People of God when we love.
— Eugene Peterson
Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.
— Henry B. Eyring
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.
— Pope Benedict XVI
We will make love an art and we will love like artists.
— Marianne Williamson