Quotes About Love

In fact, her whole life, she'd done her absolute best to do the right thing. It was wonderful to be wildly, romantically in love at sixteen. But life wasn't romantic

It's true more often than we realize: each new love is built from the wreckage of the loves that came before. In Kath, Mike saw Lisa; in Art's eyes, she resembled our mother. I can't look at Mike's face without seeing Dad's. Art, to Ma, was the living ghost of Harry Breen. We love those who fit the peculiar voids within us, our hollow wounds. We love to fill the spaces the old loves left behind.

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.

That night he'd glimpsed, however briefly, a sweetly exalted human happiness he'd only read about, Art who'd spent his whole life reading about apparitions. In those few moments he knew genuine tenderness, given and received. He experienced grace. If it sounds like heresy, I am far past caring: for my brother, making love to Kath was a reflection of divine love, a brief flash of God alive in the world.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.

Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.

I am committed to justice because first I believed that truly God so loved this broken, aching world.

Do we really need to be fed more of the Word, or are we simply undernourished from an absence of living the Word? Maybe we love God, but are we loving others? If our faith is about us, then we are not just hungry—our spirits are starving.

Our only hope is to follow the example of Jesus and get back out there, winning people over with ridiculous love

Serving people is not heaven's requirement, only a response to heaven's mercy.

The kingdom advances in our small neighborhoods and small acts of love and small moments of faithfulness and small feats of courage. It is not encapsulated in programs and top-down structures but activated through the body of Christ daring to be faithful everywhere we've been planted.

If we took Jesus' famous teachings away and just focused on the way He lived, He would still be radical.

In all our efforts, if we are not about people, our labors aren't really about Jesus but about us.

It's about building bridges with those who won't come to us on Sunday, not as a project but because Jesus loves them and told us to. It's a dangerous journey that requires honesty and vulnerability.

mail-outs. As missionaries have always understood, the key is to study the culture you are passionate about reaching and submerge into that space with respect and love.

We launch public shame grenades with abandon and claim to "love the sinner but hate the sin," which translates to "we are enormous pompous jerks.

And as it turns out, as soon as we are willing to be the last, we actually become first. When we admit we are least, we feel like the greatest. And when we lose our lives, we find it all . . . all the love, all the life, all the thrill, all the fulfillment.

The world knows about our Jesus. They know about His poverty and love of the underdog. They know He told His followers to care for the poor and to share. They've heard about His radical economic theories and revolutionary redistribution concepts. They might not understand the nuances of His divinity or the various shades of His theology, but they know He was a friend of the oppressed.

Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied. Justin

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

Family makes a house a home.

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'