Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like
a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame
burns low.
--Henry Ward Beecher
Respect is love in plain clothes.
--Frankie Byrne
To love is natural. To understand the variations of love is wisdom.
--author unknown
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves
for those who love us.
--Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times
almost insupportable.
--Victor Hugo
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of
these is love.
-- 1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built
upon the sand.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things
there is no law. Notice the word *fruit* is singular, yet it list nine.
-- Galatians 5:22 (NIV)
So there is only one fruit of the Spirit. That fruit is love.
The others...
-
Joy - love smiling
-
Peace - love resting
-
Patience - love waiting
-
Kindness - love showing itself sensitive to others' feelings
-
Goodness - love making allowances
-
Faithfulness - love proving constant
-
Gentleness - love yielding
-
Self-control - love triumphing over selfish inclinations
--Source Unknown
Put on love, which binds everything together in harmony.
-- Colossians 3: 12-17
To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through
loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness.
It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into
the mirror of our love and see themselves.
--John Gray, Ph.D.
What do women want? To be treated like a queen; but by a king....
not a pawn.
--James Robison
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside
us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our
touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous
delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
--e.e. cummings
[In wise love] each defines the secret self of the other, and refusing
to believe in the mere daily self, creates a mirror where the lover or
the beloved sees an image to copy in daily life; for love also creates
the Mask.
--William Butler Keats
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core
of his personality.
--Victor Frankel
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with
you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what
you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
--Unknown
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and
stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring
the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy
-- Marguerite De Valois
Some things are loved because they are valuable; others are valuable
because they are loved.
--Unknown
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not
in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
--Leo Buscaglia
True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for
them.
--Mandy Hampton
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an
imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen
Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me."
--Unknown
It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it
is the little differences that make them interesting.
--Todd Ruthman
