Quotes about Love
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like a church; I like a cowl;I love a prophet of the soul;And on my heart monastic aislesFall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;Yet not for all his faith can seeWould I that cowlèd churchman be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love;Obey thy heart;Friends, kindred, days,Estate, good fame,Plans, credit and the Muse,Nothing refuse.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the essence of God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.
— Randy Alcorn
Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
— Randy Alcorn