Quotes about Love
Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
— St. Augustine
We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.
— St. Augustine
I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.
— St. Basil
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
— Shane Claiborne
Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.
— Shane Claiborne
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
— Soren Kierkegaard
God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.
— Thomas a Kempis
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.
— Thomas Jefferson