Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marty Robbins

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

Martin Buber

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

Martin Buber

Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.

Martin Buber

What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

Martin Buber

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Martin Buber

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Martin Amis

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Martin Amis

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Pope Benedict XVI

Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

Pope John Paul II

Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.

Pope John Paul II

And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?

Pope John Paul II

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way, the culminating point of this answer. I wish to repeat it together with the whole Church to Him, who manifested His love by means of the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, remaining with us 'to the close of the age'

Pope John Paul II

There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice

Pope John Paul II

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

Pope John Paul II

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Pope John Paul II

Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.

Pietro Metastasio

Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Pierre Corneille

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Pierre Corneille

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

Pierre Corneille

If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

Pierre Corneille

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

Pierre Corneille

I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

Pierre Corneille

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

Pierre Corneille

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Pierre Corneille

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Pope Francis

Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

Pope Francis

To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.