Quotes about Love

Know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.

Maybe the truth of it is that it's too good not to be true.

What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.

America will not allow her children to love her. She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies.

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to rule over the earth; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.

Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?