Quotes About Love

Liegen, bei dir ich liege bei dir deine arme halten mich. deine arme halten mehr als ich bin. deine arme halten, was ich bin wenn ich bei dir liege und deine arme halten mich.

There is a Universal Creative Force connecting all beings and things, a source of love and wisdom that can be drawn from and revealed through the creation of works of art.

Both Rolling Thunder and Spotted Fawn had told me about how "spiritual healing" begins with respect for the Great Spirit—the life and love that can be found in all of nature's creations. Each element of creation has its own will, its own way, and its own purpose. These ways need to be respected, not exploited, by human beings.

While we may never find or receive the love from others that our hearts are desperate for, we can receive a love even greater than that of which we were deprived.

Our lives will become our greatest works of art not only when our relationships are a beautiful expression of love, acceptance, and intimacy, but when we have a deep sense of purpose that produces accomplishments that express, for us, success and significance.

This is perhaps why so many of us who know love fear love. We know that love is not the absence of pain. If anything, love is the promise of pain. No one has loved more deeply than God. Has anyone ever been more betrayed? God would not know suffering if He did not know love. But because He is Love, He chose to suffer on our behalf. Without love there is no glory in suffering.

We cannot live unaffected by love. We are most alive when we find it, most devastated when we lose it, most empty when we give up on it, most inhumane when we betray it, and most passionate when we pursue it.

We are most human when love is our motive.

The more you love God, the more deeply you care about life. The more deeply you care about people, the more deeply you are committed to making a difference in people's lives.

Imagine a world where love was the rule, where love was the boundary, where it was unthinkable to violate this principle: love your neighbor as yourself.

We cannot love deeply or risk greatly and never know failure or disappointment.

To live a life of love is to know betrayal and loss.

When it comes to love, it has to be face-to-face. There has to be contact. Love cannot exist where there is only distance. Love can survive distance, but only by the strength of what comes through intimacy.

God is not passive, for love is never passive, but always passionate; and passion always leads to action.

But you might wonder to yourself: What if I never find love? After all, you can't be held responsible if you've searched for love, risked in love, even fought for love, and yet have always found it unrequited. When love does not come to you, it breaks your heart, but when you do not give love away, it hardens your heart. One thing stranger than our need to be loved is our need to love, which again leads me to my conspiracy theory: We are designed for love.

The way we store energy is through our desires, values, passions, hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and ultimately our greatest capacity for energy storage is through what we love.

Where there is no love, there is no value for life.

Love is not about how many people we have used, but about how much we have cherished one person.

To give up on love is to choose a life that is less than human.

happen if people actually began discovering the actual message of Jesus Christ—that love is unconditional?

At least on an unconscious level, a part of our struggle with God is our discomfort with love. It seems no matter how beautiful or wanted we are, there's always something inside us that remains insecure. All of us find ourselves uncertain when it comes to love.

This is what makes Jesus different than the rest of us. After Jesus knew he had all things under his power, he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with a towel that was wrapped around him.

Don't let your shortcomings and flaws convince you that you need to become something other than human. Our brokenness is not proof that God could not or would not love us, but proof that what we need is the God who both created us and loves us. What our souls long to become is not something other than human, but to become beautifully human.

Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.' 'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia.