Quotes about Love

Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.

The Lover of our souls, the One who has pursued us down through space and time, who gave his own life to rescue us from the Kingdom of Darkness, has made it clear: He does not want to lose us. He longs for us to be with him forever.

No other act will bring you a greater measure of God than loving him, actively engaging your heart and soul in loving him.

You must guard your heart with everything you've got, especially in times of disappointment and pain. Your secret weapon against the enemy's hatred is to love God right then and there, in the midst of the sorrow, whatever it may be.

To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.

Pause when you are offered beauty and make the conscious decision, I receive this grace. We open our clenched soul to let it in. To find God in it. I will often pray, Thank you for this beauty. I receive it into my soul. And with it I receive you, in it, by it, through it—your love, your goodness, your life.

All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.

God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and the mundane, the meetings and the memos, the laundry and the lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you pour yours into his.

The best way to get there is to think upon the things we love and remind ourselves, "This is from God; this is his true heart.

We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.

You really won't understand your life as a woman until you understand this: You are passionately loved by the God of the universe. You are passionately hated by his Enemy.