Quotes about Love

Love is "the alpha and the omega of apologetics," in the sense that all we say must come from love, and it must lead to love and to the One who is love—in

Man's love of truth is such that when he loves something which is not the truth, he pretends to himself that what he loves is the truth, and because he hates to be proved wrong, he will not allow himself to be convinced that he is deceiving himself. So he hates the real truth for what he takes to his heart in its place.

The only hope of success is the way of love as agape rather than eros. From this rival perspective, the secret of the search is not our "great ascent" but "the great descent" - of God toward us. Instead of the seeker finding love, love seeks out the seeker - not because the seeker is worthy of love but simply because love's nature is to love regardless of the worthiness or merit of the one loved.

Love is "the alpha and the omega of apologetics," in the sense that all we say must come from love, and it must lead to love and to the One who is love—in other words, Christian advocacy must move from our love for God and his truth and beauty, to our love for the people we talk to and work right up to their love for God and his truth and beauty in their turn.

The heart of the life of faith in answer to the call of God is a call to a relationship, and a relationship of love.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

In married life three is company and two none.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas