Quotes About Love

If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.

It's just misery to try to keep count of what God is no longer counting.

Only a daily renewed astonishment at things as they are can save us from the idols; it is our love of real processes and actual beings that keeps us sane.

At the very worst, all you can be is dead - and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.

adultery can indeed be pleasant, and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

The proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own unique being. The stones on the beach, the grass in the field, the rabbits in the woods, and the stars in the sky all move toward him by the most dependable of all motions: their own desire to know and love themselves.

The theological function of hell … is to be a sacrament to the ultimate and real element of risk by which alone we can recognize a world ruled by love. Universalism, as an overriding theological principle, is a false start. On the other hand, if you ask whether there is in fact a hell - whether specific persons will actually go so far as to insist on a second death in the face of their resurrection by the supreme Lover himself - that's another matter altogether.

We are saved gratis, by grace. We do nothing and we deserve nothing; it is all, absolutely and without qualification, one huge, hilarious gift.

God in Jesus didn't prevent sinners from sinning, he went around forgiving them right and left.

While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He has taken the cleanup entirely into his own hands. He has just gone and done it without waiting for us; and he invites us simply to trust that he has it all accomplished for us in Jesus—and to proclaim that trust by acting as if we really believed it.

judgment falls not on the unacceptable but only on those who will not accept acceptance

Cuando no penséis, cuando tan sólo améis, ya no volveréis a «intentar» comprender o amar; simplemente lo haréis.

You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.

To the reactive-responsive person it is not acceptable to spend your life on what you love, because what you love is not tied to the circumstances.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

Love is the desire to be irresistibly desired.

But strictly held by none, is loosely boundBy countless silken ties of love and thoughtTo everything on earth the compass round,And only by one's going slightly tautIn the capriciousness of summer airIs of the slightest bondage made aware.

But yield who will to their separation,My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.Only where love and need are one,And the work is play for mortal stakes,Is the deed ever really doneFor Heaven and the future's sakes.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.