Love Quotes

"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

- Confucius

"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

- Confucius

"To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"Perhaps we never stop loving someone. We just learn to move forward. To live without them because of them. Perhaps we let go to hold on."

- Caroline George

"If strength is love, then we weren't strong enough, But if strength is letting love go, we were."

- Joe Bolton

"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them, they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."

- Stephen King

"If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go."

- Sarah Dessen

"The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God."

- Billy Graham

"The cross is the school of love."

- St. Maximilian Kolbe

"As they were looking on, so we too gaze on his wounds as he hangs. We see his blood as he dies. We see the price offered by the redeemer, touch the scars of his resurrection. He bows his head, as if to kiss you. His heart is made bare open, as it were, in love to you. His arms are extended that he may embrace you. His whole body is displayed for your redemption. Ponder how great these things are. Let all this be rightly weighed in your mind: as he was once fixed to the cross in every part of his body for you, so he may now be fixed in every part of your soul."

- St. Augustine

"It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross."

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

"O souls! seek a refuge, like pure doves, in the shadow of the crucifix. There mourn the Passion of your divine Spouse, and drawing from your hearts flames of love and rivers of tears, make of them a precious balm with which to anoint the wounds of your Saviour."

- St. Paul of the Cross

"The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. The greatest and most overwhelming work of God’s love."

- St. Paul of the Cross

"“Woman, behold your son,” John 19:26 – 27"

- Jesus

"The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.”"

- Joshua Harris

"God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves."

- C.S. Lewis

"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."

- Peter Kreeft

"To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross."

- Philip Yancey

"We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work."

- Oscar A. Romero

"Love and hatred are not merely subjective feelings, affecting the inward universe of those who experience them, but they are also objective forces, altering the world outside ourselves...if this is true of my love, it is true to an incomparably greater extent of Christ's love. The victory of his suffering love upon the Cross does not merely set me an example, showing me what I myself may achieve if by my own efforts I imitate him. Much more than this, his suffering love has a creative effect upon me, transforming my own heart and will, releasing me from bondage, making me whole, rendering it possible for me to love in a way that would lie altogether beyond my powers, had I not first been loved by him."

- Kallistos Ware

"I may not be able to give my kids everything they want, but I give them what they need: love, time, and attention. You can't buy those things."

- Nishan Panwar

"As your kids grow up, they may forget what you said, but they won't forget how you made them feel."

- Kevin Heath

"Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone

"You will always be your child’s favorite toy."

- Vicki Lansky

"The most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children."

- Cardinal Mermillod

"Being a parent means loving your children more than you've ever loved yourself."

- Drew Barrymore

"Parenting is not a perfect journey, but a perfect opportunity to love and guide your child."

- Peter Krause

"The greatest gift a father can give his children is to love their mother."

- John Wooden

"A baby is born with a need to be loved — and never outgrows it."

- Frank A. Clark

"Only at the cross do we see the love of God without ambiguity. Here is God’s farthest reach, His most ambitious rescue effort. God personally came to our side of the chasm, willing to suffer for us and with us."