Quotes About Love

A form of wordless prayer in which mind and heart focus on God's greatness and goodness in affective, loving adoration; to look on Jesus and the mysteries of his life with faith and love

Here I do not refer to the simple love of charity we must have for all men but of that spiritual friendship by which two, three, or more souls share with one another their devotion and spiritual affections and establish a single spirit among themselves.

Although the creature loves less, being a lesser being, yet if it loves with its whole heart (Mt. 22:37) nothing is lacking, for it has given all.

There are others who have passed through life and arrive at the end point of death with only a commonplace love, and were never very perfect. These embrace my mercy with the same light of faith and hope as those who were perfect. But these have this light imperfectly, and because they are imperfect they reach out for mercy, considering my mercy greater than their own guilt.

And whoever loves much will have great sorrow; therefore those whose love grows will know more sorrow.

In essence, contemplative prayer is a communication with God that isn't simply our own mental or affective effort, but has at least some dimension of "givenness" by God, some infusion of light or love or presence that transcends our own efforts.

This prayer, then, is a little spark of the Lord's true love which He begins to enkindle in the soul. . . . And if we don't extinguish it through our own fault, it is what will begin to enkindle the large fire that . . . throws forth flames of the greatest love of God. . . . This little spark is the sign or the pledge God gives to this soul that He now chooses it for great things if it will prepare itself to receive them.

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.

I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.

Vasiyat Mir ne mujh ko yehi ki Ki sab kuchh hona tu, aashiq na hona.

Be as willing to die to sin as Christ was to die for sin, and as willing to live to Him as He was to die for you. Be as willing to be His, to serve Him, as that He should be yours to save you. Take Him on His own terms, give up yourself wholly to Him.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.