Some quotes

Love is the medicine for the sickness of mankind. We can live if we have love. ---Dr. Karl Menninger.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish but they cease to love. ---W. Somerset Maugham.

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when He is silent.

What's so remarkable about love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

There is no greater invitation to love than in loving first.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ---William Blake.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is not hurt, but only more love. ---Mother Teresa.

His love enableth me to call every country my country, and every man my brother. ---Daniel Wheeler.

Faith is the key to fit the door of hope, but there is no power anywhere like love for turning it. ---Elaine Emans.

The world is full of beauty when your heart is filled with love.

It is hard to express love with a clenched fist.

Commitment gives substance to love. ---Heather Gills.

Love is only for the young, the middle-aged, and the old.

The happiest mind is the mind that cares for others.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. ---Martin Luther King, Jr.

It seems to be our destiny never to love anything without seeking to alter it, and in altering it to make it other than what we first loved.

Love at first sight usually ends with divorce at first slight.

The world crowns success, but God crowns faithfulness.

Humility is a strange thing---when you think you've gained it, you've lost it.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others. ---Publilius Syrus.

The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone. ---Ross Parmenter.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Discipline puts back in its place that something in us which should serve but wants to rule. ---A. Carthusian.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ---Goethe.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayers will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry. ---Rose Stokes.

The level of lust parallels the level of selfishness. The level of commitment parallels the level of love. ---Jim Gills.

Don't look down on anyone; only God sits that high.

The loneliest place in the world is the human heart when love is absent. ---E. C. McKenzie.

Love begins when a person feels another person's needs are as important as his own. ---Sullivan.

The person who is always finding fault, seldom finds anything else.

That you may have pleasure in everything seek your own pleasure in nothing. That you may know everything seek to know nothing. That you may be everything seek to be nothing. ---St. John of the Cross.

When a man sees that a neighbor hates him, then he must love more than before to fill up the gap. ---Rabbi Rafael.

So long as one loves, one forgives. ---Francois De La Rochefoucauld.

Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction but wants only to be provoked. ---Katherine Ann Porter.

It is natural to love those who love us, but it is supernatural to love those who hate us.

Could we forbear dispute and practise love, we should agree as angels do above. ---Edmund Waller.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives. ---Fr. Andrews, S. D. C.

Love for God is ecstatic, making us go out from ourselves; it does not allow the lover to belong anymore to himself, but he belongs only to the Beloved. ---St. Dionysius the Areopagite.

To love and be loved the would give all that for which alone the unwise live. ---Walter Savage Landor.

Love may be a fool's paradise, but it is the only paradise we know on this troubled planet. ---Robert Blatchford.

What must come first in all prayers, however varied they may be, and what gives them real value is the love with which they are made. ---Charles De Foucauld.

To love as Jesus loves; that is not only the Lord's percept, it is our vocation. When all is said and done it is the only thing we have to learn, for it is perfection. ---Rene Voillaume.

Chrisitan love represents both being and doing, Change on the inside affects what we do on the outside.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be borken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round witrh hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; bolt it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket---safe, dark, motionless, airless---it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all dangers of love.... is Hell. ---C. S. Lewis.

Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love 'til you give it away.

A dear old Quaker lady who was asked what gave her such a lovely complexion and what cosmetic she used, replied sweetly: " I use for the lips, truth; for the voice, prayer; for the eyes, pity; for the hands, charity; for the figure, happiness; and for the heart, love."

While some books inform others reform, only the Bible transforms.

Any man who is too busy to pray is busier than God intended him to be.

We only deliberately waste time with those we love---it is the purest sign that we love someone if

we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more constructive. ---Sheila Cassidy.

The more thou thine own self out of thy self dost throw the more will into thee God with his Godhead flow. ---Angelus Silesius.

To the Christian, death is not an end, but an event in life; a new start with an extended knowledge, and a purer love. ---Bishop of Lincoln.

Love is the energy of life, with all it yields of joy or woe and hope and fear, is just our chance o' the prize of learning love---How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. ---Browning.

Love makes obedience a thing of joy!

To do the will of one we like to please

Is never hardship, though it tax our strength;

Each privilege of service love will seize!

Love makes us loyal, glad to do our go,

And eager to defend a name or cause;

Love takes the drudgery from common work,

And asks no rich reward or greater applause.

Love gives us satisfaction in our task,

And wealth in learning lessons of the heart;

Love sheds a light of glory on our toil

And makes us humbly glad to have a part.

Love makes us choose to do the will of God,

to run His errands adn proclain His truth;

It gives our hearts an eager, lilting song;

Our feet shod with tireless wings of youth!

---Hazel Hartwell Simon.

The happiest mind is the mind that cares for others.

We see God's love within us as we gaze inward; we know what we are and what God makes us, This change is proof of the reality and beauty of God's love.

When we walk deep in the Word, we have deep faith and love. When we walk shallow in the Word, we have shallow faith and love.

Our prayers should conform to the Word of God. A true love prayer to God springs out of His Word which is written on the tables of our hearts.

When we are free from inhibitions to express our love to God through worship and praise. the Holy Spirit releases us to love others.

Where love is, God is. He that dwells in love dwells in God. God is Love. Therefore, love---love---love: the poor, where it is easy; the rich, who need it most; our equals, where it is difficult; without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination.

We love because He first loved us. Love begets love.

Eloquence without love is noise. Love is greater than faith as the end is greater than the means.

Love is greater than charity as the whole is greater than the parts.

Commitment to the Lordship of Christ brings continual revival and joy in the heart.

Your money is only as good as what you do with it. ---John D. Rockefeller.

In matters of love, the beginning of the end often turns out to be but the end of the beginning.

Self-discipline never means giving up everything, for giving up is a loss. Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of the earth, but to exchange them for better things. ---Fulton J. Sheen.

Love, like a spring rain, is pretty hard to be in the middle of without getting some on you. ---The Country Parson.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ---Bailey.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. ---Mother Teresa.

All for love, and nothing for reward. ---Edmund Spenser.

To love is to admire with the heart: to admire is to love with the mind. ---T. Gautier.

Money will buy a fine dog, but only love will make him wag his tail.

A successful marriage is one in which you fall in love many times, always with the same person. ---

McLauglin.

Don't marry someone you can live with. Marry someone you can't live without. ---John McDowell.

A fine wedding and the marriage licence do not make the marriage; it is the union of two hearts that welds husband and wife together.

Love is the only weapon we need. ---Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard.

The three essentials of happiness are:

Something to do,

Something to love

And something to hope for.

We flatter those we scarcely know,

and please our fleeting guest;

But render many a heartless blow

to those we love the best.

Love is never afraid of giving too much.

Love is the fulfillment of the law. ---Paul, Romans 13:10

There is a Love always over you which you may reject but cannot alienate; there is a Friend always with you, wh, even in your loneliest moments, leaves you not alone... that Love, that Friend, is God in Christ. ---Ames Decker Holcomb.

LOVE---the Greatest!