Quotes about Love

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

The true reason why faith is given such an exclusive place by the New Testament, so far as the attainment of salvation is concerned, over against love and over against everything else in man...is that faith means receiving something, not doing something or even being something. To say, therefore, that our faith saves us means that we do not save ourselves even in slightest measure, but that God saves us.

The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried--that is history. He loved me and gave Himself for me--that is doctrine. Such was the Christianity of the primitive Church.

For us Jesus does not merely place His fingers in the ears and say, "Be opened"; for us He does not merely say "Arise and walk." For us He has done a greater thing—for us He died.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.

How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into!

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one's bones.

Truth is not spoken in anger.Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.

Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.

One must love what is nearest, one must love what is to hand, as a dog loves.

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3