Real Love Quotes Biography
Source (google.com.pk)Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. The Christian Bible, 1 John 4:7-21
You can't control people through love, you can only do it through fear.
Love liberates, fear enslaves.
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, . . . we shall harness . . . the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
Pride is a terrible counterfeit for love. Gary Amirault
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8
The Way of Love (1 Corinthians 13:1-8, The Message by Eugene Peterson, Navpress Publications)
"If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
"If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
"Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always, "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps on going to the end.
Love never dies." (end of quote, The Way of Love 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, Peterson)
Love is our soul purpose.
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
Love doesn't give a person what they deserve, but what they need.
Love people and use things, not love things and use people.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no
hurt, but only more love. Agnes Bojaxhi (known as Mother Teresa by Roman Catholics)
The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. Indigo Girls, song lyric
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Kindness is the oil that smoothen the friction of life. - Anonymous
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. - Anonymous
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite ourselves. Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde
"I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. François de La Rouchefoucauld
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke
To love another person is to see the face of God. Lyric from Les Miserables
We love because it's the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. G. K. Chesterton
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Anonymous
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There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
No disease that enough love will not heal;
No door that enough love will not open;
No gulf that enough love will not bridge;
No wall that enough love will not throw down;
No sin that enough love will not redeem..
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble,
How hopeless the outlook,
How muddled the fangle,
How great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all..
If only you could love enough,
You would be the happiest
And most powerful being in the world.If you've loved one woman, you've loved them all. If you've loved many women, you've loved none.
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. Michael Leunig
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. Anonymous
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. Anonymous
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G. K.
Chesterton
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. Joan Crawford
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. Fr. Jerome Cummings
Honor the ocean of love. George de Benneville
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. François de La Rouchefoucauld
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
François de La Rouchefoucauld
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. Mme de Staël
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm
Where there is love there is life. Gandhi
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. Khalil Gibran
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. William Gladstone
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. John Harrigan
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise Hay
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. M. Hirschfield
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. Lisa Hoffman
The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy
themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. Zora Neale Hurston
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. Robert G. Ingersoll
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. Martin Luther King, Jr.