Famous Quotes & Sayings

John the Apostle

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

John the Apostle

In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

John the Apostle

Love is like the air we breathe. It may not always be seen, but it is always felt, used and needed.

John Templeton

As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

John Templeton

The more love we give away, the more we have left. The laws of love differ from the laws of arithmetic. Love hoarded dwindles, but love given grows. If we give all our love, we will have more left than they who save some. Giving love, not receiving, is important; but when we give with no thought of receiving, we automatically, and inescapably receive abundantly. Heaven is a by-product of love. When we say, "I love you," we mean that "a little of God's love flows from me to you." Thereby, we do not have less, but more. For in flowing, the quantity is magnified.

John Templeton

Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all of this." Sadly, this is not the case. Love exists only within our own hearts, and to have happy relationships we must first become truly loving people. And as we fill our hearts with love by expressing love for others in thought, word, and deed ("acting as if" until we make it happen if necessary), that love can heal our own lives, help to solve our problems, and enable us to feel good about ourselves.

John Robinson

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.

John Stott

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

John Steinbeck

I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra

John Steinbeck

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

John Steinbeck

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

John Steinbeck

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

John Steinbeck

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

John Steinbeck

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

John Steinbeck

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Simon

If you love language, it will love you back.

John Scalzi

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Perry Barlow

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Piper

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

John Piper

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.

John Piper

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

Martin Luther

I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.

Martin Luther

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Martin Luther

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.

Martin Luther

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

Martin Luther

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Mark Strand

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Teixeira

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

Marilyn French

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

Marilyn Ferguson

Love is a context, not a behavior.