“If you have love, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.” ——Sir James M. Barrie
“In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” ——1 John 4:10-11, The Bible
“All you who are called and gifted, hear me. Love is the missing ingredient. Follow after love and the calling, the gifting, and the revelation will find its deepest and fullest expression.” ——Chip Brogden
“Jesus is not impressed by our success in anything other than love.” ——Shawn Bolz
“The greatest spiritual practise is to transform love into service.” ——Sai Baba
“Know that you are loved by a Perfect Father with a perfect love through a Perfect Son, Jesus the Christ (Messiah).” ——Gary Amirault
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.” ——1 John 4:7-21, The Bible
“You can’t control people through love, you can only do it through fear. Love liberates, fear enslaves.” ——Author Unknown
“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, . . . we shall harness . . . the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” ——Teilhard de Chardin
“Pride is a terrible counterfeit for love.” ——Gary Amirault
“If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, ‘Jump,’ and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always ‘me first,’ Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps on going to the end. Love never dies.” ——1 Corinthians 13:1-8, The Bible (The Message, Eugene Peterson, Navpress Publications)
“Love is our soul purpose. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.” ——Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
“Love people and use things, not love things and use people.” ——Author Unknown
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.” ——Agnes Bojaxhi (known as Mother Teresa by Roman Catholics)
“The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.” ——Indigo Girls, song lyric
“Who, being loved, is poor?” ——Oscar Wilde
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” ——Sophocles
“I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.” ——Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.” ——François de La Rochefoucauld
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.” ——Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” ——Lyric from Les Misérables
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” ——Nikki Giovanni
“If you’ve loved one woman, you’ve loved them all. If you’ve loved many women, you’ve loved none.” ——Author Unknown
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.” ——Author Unknown
“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.” ——Author Unknown
“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” ——The Beatles, the last lyric of their last song
“NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.” ——Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
“Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality–not as we expect it to be but as it is–is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.” ——Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ——Joan Crawford
“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.” ——Fr. Jerome Cummings
“Honor the ocean of love.” ——George de Benneville
“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.” ——François de La Rochefoucauld
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.” ——François de La Rochefoucauld
“Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.” ——Albert Einstein
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.'” ——Erich Fromm
“Where there is love there is life.” ——Gandhi
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.” ——Khalil Gibran
“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” ——William Gladstone
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ——Louise Hay
“Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.” ——M. Hirschfield
“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” ——Lisa Hoffman
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ——Victor Hugo
“Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.” ——Zora Neale Hurston
“I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.” ——Robert G. Ingersoll
“Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.” ——Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.” ——Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” ——Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.” ——Petrarch
“Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.” ——Theodor Reik
“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.” ——Agnes Repplier
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” ——Rainer Maria Rilke
“The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ——Tom Robbins
“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.” ——George Santayana
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” ——William Shakespeare
“Love is stronger than justice.” ——Sting
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.” ——John Wesley
“Peculiar coincidence which should cause one to think: The more one loves, the larger their heaven becomes; The less one loves, the larger their hell becomes.” ——Author Unknown
“Your authority extends only as far as your love. Power and authority without love is dangerous. Love without power is just wishful thinking.” ——Evelyn Uyemuras
“Heretic, Rebel, a thing to flout,
They drew a circle to shut him out.
But Love and I had the wit to win,
We drew a circle that took them in.” ——Edwin Markham
“With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.” ——Abraham Lincoln
“Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.” ——Marianne Williamson
“Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.” ——Richard Rolle (1290-1349)
“How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! and the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They are abundantly satisfied with the richness of Your house; and You make them drink of the river of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light. O continue Your lovingkindness to them that know You; and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.” ——Psalm 36:7-10, The Bible
“True life, love, and liberty are only realized when the deepest part of our being is filled with our Father’s Lovingkindness towards us.” ——Gary Amirault
“I am obsessed with and possessed by the love of God. I cannot deny it.” ——Gary Amirault
“Love, faith, hope, joy, peace, forgiveness, mercy, truth, justice, wisdom, understanding, patience – of such is the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, heaven on earth.” ——Gary Amirault