Inspirational Quotes on Love

“We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.”

“We never love a person, but only qualities.”

“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”

“Human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known.”

“If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe there's a force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind the universe. And I believe in the poetic genius of a creator who would choose to express such unfathomable power as a child born in "straw poverty"; i.e., the story of Christ makes sense to me.”

“In some way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.”

“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”

“To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God.”

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”

“Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbed lightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expression could easily be mistaken for ferocity.”

“God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.”

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”

“Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.”

“To love is to be vulnerable.”

“Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.”

“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”

“Love is the great conqueror of lust.”

“All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that "God is love." But they seem not to notice that the words 'God is love' have no real meaning unless God contains at least two persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love.”