Inspirational Quotes on Love

“All is vanity but to love and serve Him.”

“He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.”

“Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.”

“Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for whosoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.”

“Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.”

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

“For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.”

“The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.”

“We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.”

“Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.”

“Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.”

“The affections, like conscience, are rather to be led than driven. Those who many where they do not love, will be likely to love where they do not marry.”

“Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.”

“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.”

“My life is a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though I were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.”

“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

“We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.”

“Love is the only thing in which we can retaliate with God. If God be angry with us, we must not be angry again; if He chide us, we must not chide Him again; but if God loves us, we must love Him again. There is nothing in which we can answer God again, but love. We must not give Him word for word, but we must give Him love for love.”