Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.– John 15:13
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
– C. S. Lewis –
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu –
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
– Edwin Louis Cole –
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
– John Harrigan –
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge;
and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love,
I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor,
and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love,
it profits me nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away;
if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child;
when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face;
now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
– 1 Corinthians 13, NASB –
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins;
it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow –
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
– Eva Gabor –
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists,
or simulate it where it does not.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld –
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery –
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
– Voltaire –
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
– David Grayson –
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar;
for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen,
cannot love God whom he has not seen.
-1 John 4:20 (NASB) –
Who, being loved, is poor?
– Oscar Wilde –
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
– George Eliot –
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
– Victor Hugo –
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
– Albert Einstein –
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
– Khalil Gibran –
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God;
and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
– 1 John 4:7-8 –
Love is a force more formidable than any other.
It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured,
yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment,
and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
– Barbara de Angelis –
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
– Mother Teresa –
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson –
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
– John Donne –