Quotes About Love

choreography was divinely managed. Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift.

does anybody know what love is, or what love can do, how it kills, and brings pain, I know its called "life"

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

Part of our problem is that we confuse God's reliability with God's predictability. God is perfectly reliable. His character never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His word never fails. He is love. God does not lie, and there is no hint of darkness in Him. But reliability does not equal predictability. To say that God is always good, faithful, or loving doesn't mean God always makes sense ahead of time.

How do we redeem culture? We observe it and engage it on its terms and then demonstrate the message of Jesus through service and love.

Jesus's summary of the whole law is simply this: love God and love each other. Focusing on externals will never make that happen. Religion can help us act lovingly, but it can't turn us into loving people. Only the power of God can do that.

The circle of those whom God loves has always been bigger than the circle the church has drawn. That is the scandal of grace.

Jesus calls his churches to overcome--to engage and redeem and be victorious over the culture around them--and then shows them what this looks like. This is one of the paradoxes of our faith--that Jesus conquered and overcame through suffering and sacrificial love.

Every time you are obedient to Jesus in faith, you war against the dragon and demonstrate the power and love of God. Loving your enemies, blessing people who insult you--this is not a passive, wishy-washy kind of love; it is violent resistance to the powers that govern this world.

Forgiveness is warm. Like a tear on a cheek. Think of that and of me when you stand in the rain. I loved you completely. And you loved me the same. That's all. The rest is confetti. -Nell Crain - The Haunting of Hill House

I saw our daughter dance at her wedding. Her smile was like a light and it was reflected in everyone's faces, and I recognized that light. Because it was ours. We did that. We loved each other so well that it spread out into the universe and it created a new star. -Hugh Crain - The Haunting of Hill House

You shouldn't be thinking of losing each-other at all. Don't let that loom over your happiness right now. Enjoy that easy silence with him. It is rare what you've got. But, when the time does come... it will be hard every day and it won't get easier. But... eventually, after some time, you'll find little moments, little pieces of life that remind you of him... and you'll hold them tight. It'll be like he's here with you, even though he's gone.

My simplistic answer to the question "Who am I?" is this: my truest, purest, nonnegotiable identity is the beloved. And in spite of my checkered past, my fabulous flops, my painful history, my deepest flaws, my bonehead screwups, and, yes, even beyond my own beliefs about myself, I am God's beloved. This is my foundational identity and the foundational identity of every human being.

The Creator celebrates broken things as a way to love us. And this, my friend, is also what he invites us to do.

Mother Teresa said, "The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

People of the Second Chance understand that God's love gets in through our cracks and breaks.

Fear, shame, and worthlessness have only the power we give them. This book is about hope, love, and grace and how they work toward the same ends.

Sometimes I really feel sorry for Mel - Her life would've been so much better if she'd fallen in love with someone normal. Instead she fell in love with me and had been paying for the mistake ever since.

you raise them the best you can, make all the sacrifices in the world, give them all the love in the universe, and all they do is break your heart." After lunch they called

The difference between our love and the love you have for her is like the difference between knowing something in your head and knowing something in your heart. In your head, you think you love me because we see the world the same way, we feel the same things - in a way we're almost like twins - but what you and her have is much more special because it's not about what you have in common, it's about the way she makes you feel in your heart. And the heart wins every time.

she didn't love me any more and that was pretty much the beginning of the end.

we fell out of love, but only one of us was prepared to say it.

I continue to love you with a strength I didn't know was possible. I love you because you are part of me. I love you because loving you is like loving myself. I know that, despite all that has happened, you are a good man. And I won't... I can't give you up.

How's being in love with your middle brother's girlfriend going?