Quotes About Agape

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

Agape is an obedient response of availability to God, not a feeling. But, although it is not a feeling, its ultimate end is a feeling.

Agape love is selfless love . . . the love God wants us to have isn't just an emotion but a conscious act of the will—a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.

When we focus exclusively on the love of God, when we see love as the totality of His being, are we leaving out something? To say yes is to insult Divine Agape. Love is His fundamental makeup. Everything that can be known of Him must be seen through the lens of agape, or we end up presenting a god with multiple personality. Jesus proved that God is pure love by coming into the world.

Remember always that the goal of awakening, of self-awareness, of living in higher consciousness is always about the very same thing that Christ brought into the world which is unconditional, agape love. (p. 92)

Agape is the concrete commitment to the flourishing of someone or something outside of oneself. Even and perhaps especially when that flourishing, hence the joy, is threatened.

May love binds all mankind to live in harmony.

My love is like agape and not eros.

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Agape Love is a Revolution, it has no Strings attached

Experience and Demonstrate the Agape Love, is far more than Gold - Go for it

agape as a divine love operating in the heart of man. A selfless love, an incandescent love, the highest there

Thomas Oord, in his Science of Love and elsewhere, defines or describes love as acting intentionally, in sympathetic response to others (including God), to promote overall well-being. I believe this to be one of the better efforts toward articulating agape love. Most importantly, it distinguishes love from desire, and locates it in the will, leaving room for desire and feeling to play an appropriate role in love without making them the heart of the matter. 

contemporary wording of Jesus's comparison of God's kind of love, agape, and what normally passes for love might be "What's so great if you love those who love you? Terrorists do that! If that's all your 'love' amounts to, God certainly is not involved. Or suppose you are friendly to 'our kind of people.' So is the Mafia!" (Matthew 5:46–47).

de amar a Dios con todo nuestro ser, y ello por la belleza de Dios que se nos da en Cristo. Este es el segundo movimiento en respuesta al amor: «Nosotros amamos, porque Él nos amó primero.» Pero el segundo movimiento es inseparable del tercero: nuestro amor hacia quienes aman a Dios. «Si nos amamos

Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good. It

Seek and you shall find" does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that which God is: "God is agap?." That is why all who seek it find it. De Caussade says: "If you search for this kingdom where God alone rules, you can be quite sure you will find it" (p. 112).

8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.

A person should have as our goal complete agape (self-sacrificial love). The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice.

God's love is steady and relentless. It is unchanging and unconditional. It is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. God's love is agape love, the kind of love that says, "I'm going to stay true to you until the end of time, no matter what you do, no matter how I feel, no matter how strained our relationship becomes. I will never leave you nor forsake you. You are mine, and I am yours, and our relationship is an eternal one.

But God's love is steady and relentless. It is unchanging and unconditional. It is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. God's love is agape love, the kind of love that says, "I'm going to stay true to you until the end of time, no matter what you do, no matter how I feel, no matter how strained our relationship becomes. I will never leave you nor forsake you. You are mine, and I am yours, and our relationship is an eternal one.

Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

Agape love is the decision to keep loving and seeking the best for someone even when we don't feel like it, even when that person sins against us.