Quotes about Love

Our Lord never spoke of His Heavenly, or Risen Glory without bringing in the ignominy of the Cross.

Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of love; Magdalen was there too, like a broken flower, a wounded thing. But foremost among all-God pity her!-was His own mother. Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ.

A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved— God—without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.

No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

Mary!—we poor creatures of earth are stumbling over our freedoms, fumbling over our choices. Millions of us are seeking to give up their freedom—some by repudiating it, because of the burden of their guilt—some, by surrendering it to the moods and fashions of the time—others, by absorption into Communism, where there is only one will, which is the dictator's, and where the only love is hate and revolution!

The communion rail is a place of exchange. They give time and receive eternity, they give self-denial and receive love, they give nothingness, and receive all.

Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.

Every sorrow is really the "Shade of His Hand outstretched caressingly."

Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an environment of love.