Quotes about Love

Hating those boys didn't do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.

Because even that little boy knows that love can't be earned. The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

That's the price of love," I said. "The risk of losing it. But it's worth the risk.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. And have faith. The older I get, the more I see that things tend to work out. Not always, but usually. Just not in our time.

The cost of love is the risk of losing it." But it's always worth it. After all, in the end, what else is there?

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.