Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louisa May Alcott

Love is a beautifier.

John Green

Love is the most common miracle.

John Fowles

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Jonathan Edwards

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

Jonathan Edwards

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

Holly Black

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

Hermann Hesse

Love is stronger than violence.

Hermann Hesse

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Hermann Hesse

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

Hermann Hesse

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

John Henry Newman

How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

John Henry Newman

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

John Hagee

Love is not what you say; love is what you do

John Donne

...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.

John Donne

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

John Donne

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

John Ortberg

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

John Ortberg

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

John Denver

Love is why I came here in the first place.

Joel Grey

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

Joan Rivers

I love Israel for its blue and white flag as it matches my legs.

Francois Fenelon

A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.

Mahatma Gandhi

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

James Patterson

To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.

James Maslow

One thing I love is to do childrens hospital visits.

Joan Konner

Love is transcending the ego to connect with another,

Emma Thompson

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

Emma Goldman

Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

Emma Goldman

Love is it's own protection.

John Lennon

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

John Lennon

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

John Lennon

Love is a promise; love is a souvenir...

John Lancaster Spalding

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.