Inspirational Quotes on Love

“When I say, "God is love," what do I mean by it? Why this, that God sent His only-begotten Son that we might have life in Him. We still carry about the old nature; but, blessed be God, many a time as Satan has caught me, he has never destroyed me; there is the propitiation,--I am inside, sheltered by the blood, and forgiven.”

“Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.”

“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”

“If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.”

“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.”

“This old world's dying for the want of love. There are more people die for the want of a bit of it than with overmuch of it. Don't stifle it--let it out.”

“Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.”

“Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.”

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of envy.”

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.”

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

“It is when a man has no one to love him that he commits suicide. So long as he has friends, those who love him and whom he loves, he will live, because to live is to love. Be it but the love of a dog, it will keep him in life; but let that go and he has no contact with life, no reason to live. He dies by his own hand.”

“We know but little now about the conditions of the life that is to come. But what is certain is that Love must last. God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet, therefore, that everlasting gift.”

“I have come across black men and women who remembered the only white man they ever saw before - David Livingstone; and as you cross his footsteps in that dark continent, men's faces light up as they speak of the kind Doctor who passed there years ago. They could not understand him; but they felt the Love that beat in his heart.”

“The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.”

“Why is Love greater than faith? Because the end is greater than the means. And why is it greater than charity? Because the whole is greater than the part.”

“Where Love is, God is.”