Inspirational Quotes on Love

“We cannot help conforming ourselves to what we love.”

“Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved.”

“There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!”

“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.”

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

“I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.”

“The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.”

“Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.”

“Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.”

“To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.”

“Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.”

“The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.”

“It is not this earth, nor the men who inhabit it, nor the sphere of our legitimate activity, that we may not love; but the way in which the love is given, which constitutes worldliness.”

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”

“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies: probably because they are generally the same people.”

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”