Quotes about Love
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
— Francis de Sales
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
— Francis de Sales
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
— Francis de Sales
Love is he, radiant with great splendor,And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Love knows nothing of order.
— Saint Jerome
O night that joinedBeloved and loverLover into beloved transformed
— John of the Cross
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
— Teresa of Avila
spiritual marriage is like rain falling from heaven into a river
— Teresa of Avila
Sweet Love say Where, how and when What do you want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do you want of me? . . .
— Teresa of Avila
Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas