Love Quotes

"When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host, you understand how much Jesus loves you now."

- St. Teresa of Calcutta

"The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist."

- Pope St. Gregory the Great

"You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love."

- St. Catherine of Siena

"One cannot love without suffering or suffer without loving."

- St. Gianna Beretta Molla

"Love ought to show itself in deeds more than words."

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

"He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor."

- St. Bede the Venerable

"Love is the most necessary of all virtues."

- St. Anthony Mary Claret

"I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them."

- St. Bernadette Soubirous

"To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake."

- St. Peter Claver

"The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love."

- St. Gregory the Great

"Even when I'm old and gray, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game."

- Michael Jordan

"Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable."

- David Augsburger

"Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice."

- Erich Fromm

"The best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother."

- Theodore M. Hesburgh

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

- Theodore M. Hesburgh

"As for his secret to staying married: ‘My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.’"

- Jon Bon Jovi

"To have strong feelings is what living and loving are all about. It’s all right to go on remembering and missing someone who meant so much."

- Barbara Loots

"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."

- E.E. Cummings

"You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- E.E. Cummings

"Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- E.E. Cummings

"I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)."

- E.E. Cummings

"Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- E. E. Cummings

"sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love (all the merry little birds are flying in the floating in the very spirits singing in are winging in the blossoming) lovers go and lovers come awandering awondering but any two are perfectly alone there's nobody else alive (such a sky and such a sun i never knew and neither did you and everybody never breathed quite so many kinds of yes) not a tree can count his leaves each herself by opening but shining who by thousands mean only one amazing thing (secretly adoring shyly tiny winging darting floating merry in the blossoming always joyful selves are singing) sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love"

- E. E. Cummings

"Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world."

- John Mayer

"Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning."

- Paul Klee

"Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"The best love in the world is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don’t have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother."

- C. JoyBell C.