Quotes About Love

faith, to embrace hope, and to bear your love before you like a burning candle, for I promise that it will light your way.

I lay on the straw matting, thinking about how much I'd hated Albert when I believed that he'd toadied out on us. And I thought about how much I loved him right at that moment, though I would never have told him so.

With Mother home I liked the idea that we'd been saved as a family by the miracle of that ordinary grace.

Cork, promise me something." "What?" "You won't do anything that'll get you hurt." "I'm not what you'd call a brave man," he assured her. She sighed, her breath making the hair at the back of his neck shiver. "Maybe not, but you're stubborn, and that's just as bad." After

THE WORLD IS HARD. BE STRONG. LOVE IS FOR ONLY A FEW. DON'T EXPECT IT. LIFE ISN'T FAIR. BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE. BE ONE OF THEM.

In every human being there are two wolves constantly battling. One is love and the other is fear. The wolf that wins the battle is the one you feed. Always the one you feed.

Grandfather, sacred one, Teach us love, compassion, and honor, That we may heal the earth And heal one another.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. —BLAISE PASCAL

When we feel abandoned, alone, and lost, what's left to us? What do I have, what do you have, what do any of us have left except the overpowering temptation to rail against God and to blame him for the dark night into which he's led us, to blame him for our misery, to blame him and cry out against him for not caring? What's left to us when that which we love most has been taken?

That is one thing love does. It tests us in difficult ways. But love is also fear's worst enemy. In what is ahead of you, hold to your love and not your fear. And when you imagine, imagine the best of what might be.

the young woman was either a superb actress or had truly felt, as most women ultimately did, the utter betrayal of love. The

NOTHING IS EVER everything, but the loss of a true love feels that way.

Cork had no idea what passed between them, though he could guess about part of it. In his own mind it was, as Henry Meloux had said long ago, that there were spiritual bonds connecting certain people, that they were two sides of the same leaf, two halves of a broken stone, and that it was not about love, as most people thought of that word, but about a wholeness that was there when the two parts came together.

In his first letter to the Corinthians, Saint Paul tells us exactly what they are: faith, hope, and love.

I could see him rolling the question around in his head. I don't know about the God in the Bible, he signed. But I know you and Albert and Emmy, and now Sister Eve. And I think about Herman Volz and Emmy's mother. I know love. So if it's true, like Sister Eve says, that God is love, then I guess I believe.

As I walked away he called to me and when I turned back he said, "They're never far from us, you know." "Who?" I asked. "The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.

As Cork drove away, he leaned out the window of his Bronco and called out to his children a father's wish and a father's blessing: "Be good.

I have been told, Corcoran O"Connor, that the heart has two chambers. I believe it because I do know that the heart has two sides. One is love and the other is fear. One creates, the other destroys. Not every person kills, but every person could. It is how the Great Spirit created us. I do not pretend to understand why; I only know it is so. (Meloux)

WE BREATHE LOVE in and we breathe love out. It's the essence of our existence, the very air of our souls.

1. The world is hard. Be strong. 2. Love is for only a few. Don't expect it. 3. Life isn't fair. But some people are. Be one of them.

Believe me, Buck, if you have family, you can lose everything and still count yourself a rich man.

In your dark night, I urge you to hold to your faith, to embrace hope, and to bear your love before you like a burning candle, for I promise that it will light your way.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God never promised us an easy life. He never promised that we wouldn't suffer, that we wouldn't feel despair and loneliness and confusion and desperation. What he did promise was that in our suffering we would never be alone. And though we may sometimes make ourselves blind and deaf to his presence he is beside us and around us and within us always. We are never separated from his love. And