Quotes About Love

The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love.

Romans 8:28 (ESV): For those who love God all things work together for good.

Dostoyevsky says, "love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams" (The Brothers Karamazov).

it is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.

St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;

It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That's because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth.

The cathedrals were not financed by taxes, on the poor or on the rich. They were financed by gifts, from rich and poor alike. They were not built at the expense of the poor; they were built by the poor, by the peasants who worked on them, and by their gifts. And the cathedrals were also built for the poor, who usually love them more than the rich do. (The rich build banks; the poor build cathedrals. We build what we love.)

Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin".

our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness.

We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God

That's why contraception is wrong by nature: it's a limit, a "Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won't give each other Everything")

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.

Those who love Tolkien are almost always good people, honest people. Some are Hobbit-like and some are Elvish, but none are Orcish. Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

It's out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.

Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will.

That divine presence explains the joy the Jews felt so passionately when they went to their temple and which we find expressed in their Psalms. If we don't have as much joy in our churches as they had, it can only be because we don't have as much faith and love toward that divine presence as they had. And yet we have the presence of the same God in an even more complete and more concrete form in Christ, who is God incarnate, fully divine and fully human.

Divine love is not humanity but neighbor, the concrete, unique individual. You can only ever love individuals, because only individuals ever exist. Classes and collections are abstract objects of thought, not concretely real things. We group people into groups, but real people are concrete individuals.

It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy.

The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.

is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He

All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We

1) Physical gravity is a physical form of love. That little rock is falling because it's in love with the big rock called the earth.

The family that fights together stays together.