Quotes about Love
If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
— Amy Carmichael
You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
— Julian of Norwich
Love isn't what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
— CS Lewis
If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.
— Charles Spurgeon
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
— Frederick Buechner
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.
— Lee Ann Womack
Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
— Leo Buscaglia
Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.
— Lysa TerKeurst
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
— Margaret J. Wheatley