Quotes About Love

My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

The missing link between reading a self-help book and actually achieving positive personality growth is a network of long-term give-and-take relationships with concerned others. Human beings simply cannot develop into mature adults (regardless of their chronological age) without the love and support of people around them. When I say "love," I am speaking in the general sense of the word meaning those who appreciate, enjoy, support, and show interest in others.

Better is one day in the company of those bullied by Christians but loved by Jesus than thousands in the company of those wielding scripture to harm the weak and defenseless.

Make your church a context where parents know that the right response to their teenagers is never to reject them as human beings, never to throw them out.

Blest be the God of love, Who gave me eyes, and light, and power this day, Both to be busy and to play. . . . My God, Thou art all love. Not one poor minute escapes Thy breast, But brings a favor from above; And in this love, more than in bed, I rest. Amen. —GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633)

O Lord, give us grace not only to be hearers of the word, but also doers of the same; not only to love, but to live Thy gospel; not only to profess, but also to practice Thy blessed commandments, to the honor of Thy holy name. Amen. —THOMAS BECON (c. 1512–1567)

my own beloved sister, who is dearer to me than words can say and who came out as a lesbian

Lord Jesus, I do love You and most earnestly worship You. Help me today, please, to be even the palest reflection of that completeness that was and is Yours. Then I, like a tiny sliver of glass that glitters in the sunshine, will reflect back to the world Your godly brightness. Amen. —JEANIE GUSHEE

O Jesus, keep me under the standard of Your cross. Let me not just look at You crucified, but have You living in my heart. Amen. —BERNADETTE OF LOURDES (1844

Father, I thank Thee for the night, And for the pleasant morning light, For rest, and food, and loving care, And all that makes the world so fair. Help me to do the things I should, To be to others kind and good, In all I do, in work and play, To grow more loving every day. Amen. —REBECCA J. WESTON (1835

the religion of Jesus is the good news of God's imminent action to bring in the kingdom of God, and the urgent call to get ready. It is also the extraordinary way in which he lived, the radical nature of his apocalyptic and prophetic ministry, his profound supernatural healing power, and his love for the poor, sinners, Gentiles, women, children, and all who are oppressed.

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Sleep, my soul, and peace attend Thee, all through the night; Guardian angels God will send Thee, all through the night. Slow the drowsy hours are creeping, Hill and vale in slumber sleeping, God His loving vigil keeping, All through the night. Amen. —WELSH FOLK SONG

There are millions of LGBTQ Christians.

By the grace, compassion and love of mankind of Your only begotten Son Jesus Christ, through whom the glory, the honor, the dominion, and the adoration are due unto You, with Him and the Holy Spirit, the Life-Giver, now and unto the ages of ages. Amen. —COPTIC ORTHODOX PRAYER

O Lord our God, what sins I have this day committed in word, deed, or thought, forgive me, for You are gracious and You love all people. Grant me peaceful and undisturbed sleep, send me Your guardian angel to protect and guard me from every evil, for You are the guardian of our souls and bodies and to You I ascribe glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, now and for ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen. —RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PRAYER

My God, I pray that I may so know You and love you, that I may rejoice in You. And if I may not do so fully in this life, let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that in fullness.

From one point of view, the Bible is the story of a romance, a heavenly Father seeking an earthly bride for his Son. Like every good romance, they 'get married and live happily ever after'. But this climax is only reached in the Book of Revelation, without which we would never know whether the engagement (or 'betrothal'; 2 Corinthians 11:2) ever came to anything or was broken off!

God's definition of love is a love that keeps the commandments, not that breaks them.

holiness is not based upon fear, it is based upon perfect love which casts out fear.

faith, hope and love are the three main virtues in life.

They love me for what I'm not. They hate me for what I am.

I prayed for my mother and sister, for my uncles and aunts, for the friends I'd had, both good and bad, and last for my father wherever he was, Amen.