Quotes about Love

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.