Quotes about Love
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love follows knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The person who truly understands love could love anyone.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the deepest part of love
— St. Thomas Aquinas