Quotes About Love

I saw your intelligence, and I was intrigued. I saw your humor, and I was charmed. I saw your soul, and it was beautiful. I'm in love with you, Mary Bennet.

Oh, God show me more of Your holiness. Show me more of my sinfulness. Help me to hate sin and to love righteousness as You do. Grant me a deeper conviction of sin and a more thorough spirit of repentance. And make me holy as You are holy.

Whether you grew up, as I did, in the church, or have no church background at all; whether you have a 'respectable' background or a questionable one; whether you are well-versed in the Bible or have only recently opened it for the first time-there is room in this love story for you.

El amor inescrutable de Dios por nosotros lo lleva a atraernos de vuelta a Él cuando nos apartamos.

A medida que camines en unión y comunión con Él se despedirá una dulce fragancia y crecerá un delicioso fruto; la fragancia y el fruto del su Espíritu. Tu serás bendecida; otros serán bendecidos. Y es todo, todo, todo para el Amado.

I want you to sign your name on the bottom line, hand it back to Me, and let Me fill in the details. Why? Because I am God; because I have bought you; because I am trustworthy; because you know how much I love you; because you live for My glory and not your own independent, self-promoting pleasure.

The apostle Paul said, "I will very gladly spend and be spent for you" (2 Corinthians 12:15 KJV). That's part of what is involved in ministering to others, whether in a synagogue, a Sunday school class, or a house full of little ones.

Love is not a feeling; it is a commitment to act in the best interests of another.

And just in case you interpret boundary setting as callous and unloving, I want to be clear: naming my limits doesn't give me permission to walk all over anyone else's boundaries or refuse to be generous. In fact, I'm much more attuned to the boundaries of others now that I'm right with my own. And as for generosity, I'm now generous out of the desire to give rather than out of some fear that I won't be loved if I don't.

Poet David Whyte once said that if we're living the life we truly want to live, someone we love will feel betrayed

And though she loves nothing more than the sight of her handsome prince, his wife sometimes dreams about that unknown lover, and, on such occasions, he comes to her. Even now, this very evening, the prince is waiting outside her bedchamber door until it is fully dark, when he will slip quietly in...

am talking about much more than carnal love. You are his rest when he is weary; his joy when he is low; his quiet song when his ears are filled with human pleas and blandishments. What purpose do you serve? You give the King life.

I bowed my head, not knowing what was coming. The dying words of a King were powerful by every magic known to man. But I knew that since it was Arthur, they would be merciful. "He blessed you, Gwen, and he expressed the wish that when your time comes, you be buried with him. In the same grave." The tears ran freely down my face as I felt the love of that strong heart reach out to me, even from death.

There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

I was in love with a whirlwind and I must spin a net big enough to catch it

Sweetheart, please don't worry about me— I want to always be a help—You know I am all yours and love you with all my heart.

God's Love does exactly the same thing. It's an unconditional giving of yourself for another with no strings attached.

God's Love is a Love that keeps on loving even when the object of that Love ceases to please or even tries to stop that Love from coming.

Though everything in my life is upside down, and I don't understand a thing that You are doing, I will still hope in Your Love and faithfulness.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

She was filled with a strange, wild, unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, but it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.