Quotes about Love
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
— George Eliot
Love supreme defies all sophistry.
— George Eliot
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
— Graham Greene
You cannot love without intuition.
— Graham Greene
Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
— Hannah More
Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's beloved daughter or son. That's the truth of who you are.
— Henri Nouwen
Heavenly Father and the Savior are grateful that you do your part. They know you, They watch over you, and They love you.
— Henry B. Eyring
So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
— Ignatius of Loyola
Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
— Isabel Allende