Quotes about Love

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place - but for different reasons. Satan's motive in Jesus' crucifixion was rebellion; God's motive was love and mercy. Satan was a secondary cause behind the Crucifixion, but it was God who ultimately wanted it, willed it, and allowed Satan to carry it out. And the same holds true for disease.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, In wonder, love and praise.

Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.