Quotes About Love

The knowledge of God's Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.

True love is founded in the truth of who God really is.

We probably don't have to convince you that your spouse isn't perfect. No one is! But mistakes create opportunities for us to extend God's grace. Our willingness to forgive is one of the greatest evidences of Christ within us.

We should not serve the Lord for what He can do but rather for who He is and what He has already done for us.

But ground will produce only what is planted in it. If we plant seeds of debt, unforgiveness, and offense, another root will spring up in place of the love of God. It is called the root of bitterness.

True love doesn't flatter; it's truthful.

Use your liberty in Christ to set others free, not to assert your own rights.

It's possible to want intellectual stimulation, emotional gratification and social usefulness but not to want God. Because if you really want God in your life, you have to give up your own will, and that shows us the difference between someone who is actually trying to use God and someone who is trying to serve God. to use God is to seek him for what we can get out of Him. To serve God, is to be entirely motivated by our love for him.

Love forgets wrongs and gives hope for the future. I commit my life to loving others and to finding opportunities for restoration, healing, and peace.

A ousadia necessária para quebrar o poder da intimidação precisa ser alimentada com o nosso amor por Deus. "Porque Deus não nos deu o espírito de temor [de intimidação], mas de poder, de amor e de moderação" (2 Tm 1:7). Como já disse, vi homens ungidos desistirem sob o peso da intimidação durante momentos de pressão.

John, I'm not saying that if you keep My commandments, you prove to Me that you love Me," He said. "I already know whether you love Me or not! What I'm saying is if a man falls head over heels in love with Me, he will be the one enabled to keep My commandments!

In His wisdom, He purposely withholds the revelation of His glory to see if we will serve Him with love and reverence, or turn our attention to that which receives glory on the earth yet pales in comparison to Him.

El conocimiento de la Palabra de Dios sin amor es una fuerza destructora, porque nos llena de orgullo y legalismo (1 Corintios 8:1-3), lo cual hace que nos justifiquemos en lugar de arrepentirnos por la falta de perdón.

We give our lives completely because we are confident of His perfect leadership, character, and love and that He knows what's best. Though He intensely desires our freedom and loves us perfectly, He is the King of all kings and Lord of all lords and will not come into our lives as second to anything or anyone else.

She still said nothing and I purposely did not look at her because I did not wish either to press her or to embarrass her. I was in love with her, and my heart went out to her as she tried to fathom her own feelings. I felt like saying: Don't bother to explain, darling. I know it all. Instead, the calculating side of my mind was at work: the side that plotted carefully, planned to get what it wanted and nearly always succeeded.

In the love of my parents that's so conditional, in my love of nature that's so ephemeral, in the love of a girlfriend that so far is either short-lived or unavailable? In all these thoughts I forget to question my love for myself. Squeezing out sponges of freezing water to rinse shampoo off car bodies, that's the one thing I seem to be lacking.

It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.

One single syllable of intimacy and the world is put to rights.

Tú eres mi mejor amigo —dijo—. Mi mejor amigo para toda la vida.

I was deluding myself, for love was one thing but desire was something else entirely.

I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it.

A home is not a building or a street or a city or something so artificial as bricks and mortar. A home is where one's family is...

A marriage should be about friendship and companionship, not about sex.

But for all that we had, for all the luxury to which we were accustomed, we were both denied love, and this deficiency would be scorched into our futures lives like an ill-considered tattoo inscribed on the buttocks after a drunken night out, leading each of us inevitably toward isolation and disaster.