Quotes About Love

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. —William Barclay

According to Leviticus 19:17, 18 it is of the essence of love for one's neighbor to avoid grudge bearing by dealing immediately with matters that have come between them. Resentment and hatred are not easily distinguished in Scripture.

Love is self-giving; fear is self-protecting.3 Love moves toward others; fear shrinks away from them. But the counselor must remember (and persuade the counselee that) love is the stronger since it is able to "cast out" fear. In dealing with fear, nothing else possesses the same expulsive power.

As always in Christian service, he will find his life in losing it. His fears of men will diminish as his loving service to them increases. It is more blessed to give than to receive. Personal blessing comes not by seeking blessing, however, but by becoming a blessing to others.

People wanted to follow these leaders, who cared about them. All three understood what was in the best interest of their audiences. That is how they got to be so loved.

I head someone say once that passionate people live violent lives. At the time I didn't really get it but if what they meant was the way love waits in ambush traps your well trained sense of control and tortures you into a confession you'd just as soon not make I now understand.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

Yes, eros and agape are different, but the stifling of the former leads to a distortion of the latter.

This is my commandment," Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, "That you love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). The simplicity and force of this statement take away the breath.

I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.

The bones came jumbled together from the kitchen... there was no way of telling my parents from my Brothers and Sisters. I put them all in the same urn. Sometimes, late at night, I hold them in my hands and cry.

Love is blind. God is Love. Ray Charles is blind. Therefore Ray Charles must be God"14 Tom Waits was already a believer.

Just because you're a slave to your lover in the bedroom doesn't mean you have to be a slave to him in the rest of your life.

love will go down as the fear of divination, or the source of continuity within divinity.

Self-motivation without gratitude is impossible. Our energy is "sapped" when our entire focus is on what's wrong instead of what is right with our lives. One of our greatest challenges is to live and love in spite of pain and disappointment...to find gratitude in the midst of it all. -Jayadeva De Silva

You managed to keep Aiden at home.

She's really not my kind of girl — most of them have tattoos or nose rings — but there's something about her smile. She smiles like she's in love with whoever she's looking at. She smiled at me a few months ago. I've been trying to get her to do it again ever since.

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?