Quotes about Love

True love is something seen and known by others.

Where is the person whose heart is so passionately in love with the promised glory of heaven that he feels like an exile and a sojourner on the earth? Where

May God so work in our hearts that our faith is affectionate and our passion is principled.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.

God bless you, my dear!

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.

I am in as sweet communion with Christ as a poor sinner can be; and am only pained that He hath much beauty and fairness, and I little love; He great power and mercy, and I little faith; He much light, and I bleared eyes.