Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth. . . For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded form the promised land; Elisha’s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.
Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.
I love beautiful things; I like having nice clothes, and I can appreciate why other people do - but I've also started to learn more about the impact of what we buy: how things are made, how much you buy and the quality of everything.
The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.
True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.
No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance. '
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.
I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people, especially in a team setting.
Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.
I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.
Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive ideal, That has been set before the world. A perfect marriage is like a pure heart: Those who have it are fit to see God.
If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?
There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the life of spontaneity, truth, love, beauty is to live in heaven. To live the life of hypocrisy, lies, compromises,to live according to others, is to live in hell. To live in freedom is heaven, and to live in subjection is hell.
Love is the only engine of survival
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.