Quotes about Love

There is no love which does not become help.

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

The law of love is the ultimate law because it is the negation of law; it is absolute because it concerns everything concrete. The paradox of final revelation, overcoming the conflict between absolutism and relativism, is love.

The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.

But if it is life alone that dies, love is born, which is the innermost part of the spirit. It is the most mature and most precious fruit of the life that sacrifices itself. Love breaks out of the prison of individualism and nationalist stupidity. Love goes to another person, even one with a different language or of a different race, and returns from him richer.

The first duty of love is to listen.

history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.