Quotes About Love

The only indestructible palace is in the heart.

Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.

No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.

Real love is a long apprenticeship.

We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.

It is about a dragon and a prince and a princess." "Oh, lovely! Does it end happily?" "Happily for the humans. Not so well for the dragon." "Just as it should be. Commence.

un hombre que ama puede ver cosas que los demás no ven. La fe abre puertas.

I am not afraid of being unloved. But I am terrified of never learning to love. There,

Remembering the fatherless feeling, the longing to be picked up and tossed into the air and caught with a laugh, and carried on a shoulder ride as his father-protector strode fearless through the world.

Love bursts forth from the springs of the heart as raw material. It takes many shapes. It asks us to go forth and die, over and over again. It always asks this terrible price. It wants our life—all of it. Then gives it back again.

There is no need for a doctor. But I would like to lie down for a while. I need to pray. The Eucharist is such a consolation to me. The Lord is so beautiful, so beautiful. He deserves so much more from us. We are so poor! Our little hearts are so poor! Love is not loved, Father Elijah. Love is not loved.

El arte es como una declaración de amor, la conciencia de que dependemos unos de otros. Una confesión. Un acto inconsciente que, sin embargo, refleja el verdadero significado de la vida: amor y sacrificio.

Michael D. O'Brien

His revulsion was overcome by love welling up within his heart.

There is beauty in the world. There is no reason for it to be here. If it's all biology, all eating and getting eaten and the strongest devouring the weakest, then it's madness. Nothing more than madness. It's dying and drowning, and all love is illusion. But there is love, you see. Poor, weak, and broken love—a sign of something from a distant land.

He also loved Christ. And he knew that if he were to love himself in the most profound and godly sense, he must not abandon the indelible character of his life—his celibate priesthood, eschatological sign of the end of history—carrying in his own flesh a word about the final objective of love, the ultimate consummation toward which all human love strived and that all human love fell short of on this earth. "In Paradise," he would tell her, "in Paradise we. . .

I suspect that I shall be broken; I suspect that I shall finally live. Save me, Emily! Save me from this shattering we are pleased at times to call love.

The love God pours out on the world is effective in our lives to the degree that we open ourselves to it. Until we do, we presume it is just an abstraction.

He knows your fear, and He wants you to come to Him and lay your head against His heart.

Good-bye, O fairest world, good-bye", I soliloquized. "O blue gem in the heavens, where mankind dwells in love, and no man's hand is lifted against another, and the gifted realize their every dream, and all things sing, and the light grows gold when the bells ring." "Good poetry needn't rhyme", said Xue. "Besides, you shouldn't tell lies." "Lies? No, I was just dreaming.

to fight, one must know the enemy and must love passionately what is to be preserved.

He came to love adversity as an unsentimental but beloved teacher.

Charity does not batter down the gates of a wall in the name of love or in the name of a unity that does not yet exist.

Not being warm is a training?" "Yes, it is." "It seems a very cold religion." "Things are warmer on the inside than the outside. There are moments when the face of the Beautiful One is before us, in the eyes of the heart. There is an embrace that is all Love. It is worth everything—everything.