Quotes about Love
I see now that in my search for love and acceptance, I slowly began to enslave myself to various identities, which I mistook for my real self in many arenas—sports, church, relationships, career, wealth. These identities became like gods of a lesser kind, all of which I hoped would save me from insignificance in this life.
— Ted Dekker
Love is giving, not taking.
— Ted Dekker
It's not that Christianity has failed; it's that so few Christians have really tried it. If you were in the truth, you would know love without fear. You think you're saved from some future hell, but as you can see, it's all around you. Fear has invaded you and blinded you to the light.
— Ted Dekker
Love, dear one. The love that knows no wrong like the light knows no darkness.
— Ted Dekker
We're good Christians, so how can the Fury blind us?" "Actually, you serve fear. You think it will save you, but fear can't save you. Only love can, and God is love. You can choose the light, which shows itself as love, or you can choose darkness, which shows itself as fear. Not both.
— Ted Dekker
Sin is behovely, but all shall be well...
— Julian of Norwich
If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
— Julian of Norwich
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
— Julian of Norwich
God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
— Julian of Norwich
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
— Julian of Norwich
we need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully...
— Julian of Norwich
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
— Julian of Norwich