Quotes about Love
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
— Samuel Rutherford
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
— Samuel Rutherford
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
— Shane Claiborne
My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.
— St. Jerome
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
— St. Jerome
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
— St. Jerome
Love means never having to say you're sorry. That's why I never apologize to my mirror.
— Stephen Colbert
Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
— Ted Dekker
It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
— Teresa of Avila
Love needs to be proved by action.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'
— St. Therese of Lisieux