Quotes About Love

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love each other.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

The Song that Toomai's Mother sang to the Baby

Behavior is the product of forces, contending forces that are still contending today, struggling within each generation. The borders between species are continually tested and redefined by the outcome of each member of each generation's luck in love - an amazing thought. (p.170)

Nothing except love itself touches us so intimately and forcibly as a good story told exactly right.

God has determined to steer what He hates in a direction that He loves!

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. —C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

When our motivation to obey becomes an oppressive pressure to do the right thing, to do what's expected of us as Christians, then it breeds serious problems. Obedience that is only seen as rule-keeping ruins the love relationship between us and the Lord. Why? Even though the rules may be biblically based, we will end up obeying them rather than God. Concern with the letter of the law will cause us to lose the spirit of love.

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

Love is touching souls.

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet...

Oh you're in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you darling And I would still be on my feet Oh I would still be on my feet

I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

I was overwhelmed with the privilege it is to parent another human being, the luxury of love, the decadence of caring.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

O amor não se prova, nem se mede. É como Gabriela. Existe, isso basta - falou João Fulgêncio. - O facto de não se compreender ou explicar uma coisa não acaba com ela. Nada sei das estrelas, mas as vejo no céu, são a beleza da noite.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Vestidos de farrapos, sujos, semiesfomeados, agressivos, soltando palavrões e fumando pontas de cigarro, eram, em verdade, os donos da cidade, os que a conheciam totalmente, os que totalmente a amavam, os seus poetas.

Porque agora sabe que ela brilhará para ele entre mil estrelas no céu sem igual da cidade negra.

That's the very reason why love is eternal,' concluded João Fulgêncio, 'because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

Mesmo não sabendo que era amor, sentiam que era bom.