Quotes about Love
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .
— St. Augustine
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
— St. Augustine
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.
— St. Augustine
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
— St. Augustine
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
— St. Augustine
To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.
— St. John Chrysostom
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
— Samuel Johnson
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
— Samuel Johnson
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
— Samuel Johnson
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
— Samuel Johnson
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
— Samuel Rutherford