Our Love famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.
-- Anna Funder -
Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?
-- Anne Rice -
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
-- Ben Affleck -
Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for
-- Bob Goff -
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.
-- Bob Jones, Sr. -
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
-- Brennan Manning -
While we have the freedom to share our love for God with Him and His people in our own language, let's make sure that what we are writing about is orthodox and embraces the "whole counsel of Scripture."
-- Brenton Brown -
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.
-- C. S. Lewis -
What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.
-- Carolyn Meyer -
Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.
-- Catherine McAuley -
Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.
-- Christine Caine -
We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.
-- Claudia Gray -
Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.
-- Dave Hunt -
There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.
-- David Levithan -
Our love is like a song but you won't sing along.
-- Demi Lovato -
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
-- Eknath Easwaran -
By our actions we tell Him of our love.
-- Elizabeth of the Trinity -
Let us ask God to make us true in our love, to make us sacrificial beings, for it seems to me that sacrifice is only love put into action.
-- Elizabeth of the Trinity -
The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves.
-- George Vaillant -
Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.
-- Greta Garbo -
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
-- Haniel Long -
The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step...
-- Harville Hendrix -
What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.
-- Henri Nouwen -
Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.
-- Iris Murdoch -
Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake.
-- Iza Calzado -
God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.
-- Jacques Maritain -
Once in a while, our thoughts drift and fade, back into the recessed hiding places where our memories are stored. At times we recall them- the memories of our loves, our youths, our life experiences. These dreams appear to us, and for seconds, minutes, or hours we are there once again.
-- James Michael -
Elder Jeffery R. Holland: “So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up and the truth to defend. We have wrongs to make right, truths to share and good to do. In short, we have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating our love of the Lord. We can’t quit and we can’t go back.
-- Jeffrey R. Holland -
the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
-- Jim Morrison -
Romance is all about making a story out of our love
-- Joey Comeau -
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
-- John Calvin -
Our love cannot be measured, it just is.
-- John Paul Stevens -
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
-- John Stott -
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
-- John Stott -
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.
-- Joni Mitchell -
There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
-- Joseph Conrad -
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
It will never be about our love for God. It will always be about His magnificent love for us.
-- Joseph Prince -
Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
-- Kathryn Schulz -
The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we are subject to others - our wealth, our position, our reputation, and our life - and to set a high value on those things which no man can take from us - our integrity, our righteousness, our love for all men, and our communion with God.
-- Kenneth E. Boulding -
Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.
-- Kurt Russell -
This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first.
-- Lana Del Rey -
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.
-- Lierre Keith -
Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.
-- Luke Davies -
The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love.
-- Magda Gerber -
We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
-- Marianne Williamson -
We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.
-- Marianne Williamson -
We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.
-- Matt Walsh -
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
We love even when our love is not requited.
-- Mortimer Adler -
Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start
-- Mother Teresa -
There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.
-- Mother Teresa -
True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
-- Nhat Hanh -
O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.
-- Pablo Neruda -
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
-- Paul Tillich -
We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
-- Pericles -
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
-- Phillips Brooks -
[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.
-- Radclyffe Hall -
Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.
-- Ralph Washington Sockman -
The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
-- Richard Bach -
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.
-- Richard Matheson -
If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.
-- Richard Rohr -
If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.
-- Richard Stearns -
People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
-- Rick Warren -
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
-- Saint Francis de Sales -
At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet us love God and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr -
all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.
-- Stevie Smith -
We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her
-- Susan Abulhawa -
love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.
-- Susan Abulhawa -
The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
-- Susan Jeffers -
Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.
-- Terence Cooke -
Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature
-- Thomas Merton -
We can choose to make our love for each other what our lives are really about.
-- Werner Erhard -
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
-- William Butler Yeats -
I ... am endeavoring ... to attend to my own duty only as a Christian. ... let us take care that our Christianity, though put to the test ... be not shaken, and that our love for things really good wax not cold.
-- William Samuel Johnson -
Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.
-- Woody Allen -
We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
-- Zadie Smith -
If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -
We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
-- Beau Willimon -
To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.
-- Charles Villiers Stanford -
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.
-- Marcia Whicker -
We measure our success of love in the images of love. But those images are static. And it's a hopeless project, because our love will never be like that image. The actual reality of love in our lives is much more chaotic.
-- Pernille Fischer Christensen -
If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.
-- Roderick L. Evans -
We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.
-- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar -
Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.
-- Erin McCarthy -
our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.
-- Rosario Ferre
