Inspirational Quotes on Love

“I can't make you love me, but you can't keep me from loving you.”

“The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.”

“Love is friendship set on fire.”

“Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God, for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the bond of perfection; it is the old, the new, and the great commandment, and all the commandments, for it is the fulfilling of the law. It does the work of all the other graces without any instrument but its own immediate virtue.”

“Two things create love perfection and usefulness, to which answer, on our part, admiration and desire; and both these are centered in love.”

“Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.”

“Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.”

“For where love is wanting, the beauty of all virtue is mere tinsel, is empty sound, is not worth a straw, nay more, is offensive and disgusting.”

“The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.”

“I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.”

“Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God. ”

“Love precedes discipline.”

“I do verily believe that when God shall accomplish [unity], it will be the effect of love, and not the cause of love. It will proceed from love, before it brings forth love.”

“Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is not a resolute abandoning of one's own good with a view solely to the good of the other person. It is first a deeply satisfying experience of the fullness of God's grace, and then a doubly satisfying experience of sharing that grace with another person.”

“Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

“Though we cannot think alike may we not love alike?”

“As the furious hate which the devil bears us is termed the roaring of a lion, so our vehement love may be termed crying after God.”

“Love fasts when it can, and as much as it can. It leads to all the ordinances of God, and employs itself in all the outward works whereof it is capable. It flies, as it were, like Elijah over the plain, to find God upon his holy mountain.”

“Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.”

“Normally when I've been in the position where I've felt little love for God, it's because I haven't understood how much He loves me. The more I understand how much He loves me, I mean it's unbelievable, it's almost parallel the more I come to love Him, that's been my response.”