Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
Miguel de Cervantes

Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow; seek goodness in others, love more persons more; love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thoughts of return, never fear, the return will take care of itself.
Henry Drummond

True love hurts. It always has to hurt. It must be painful to love someone, painful to leave them, you might have to die for them. When people marry they have to give up everything to love each other. The mother who gives birth to her child suffers much. It is the same for us in the religious life. To belong fully to God we have to give up everything . Only then can we truly love. The word “love” is so misunderstood and so misused.
Mother Teresa

I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
Michelangelo

Through the centuries men have displayed many different symbols to show that they are Christians. They have worn crosses in the lapels of their coats, hung chains about their necks, even had special haircuts. Of course, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with any of this, if one feels it is his calling. But there is a much better sign, a universal mark that is to last through all the ages of the church until Jesus comes back…Love- and the unity it attests to- is the mark Christ gave Christians to wear before the world. Only with this mark may the world know that Christians are indeed Christians and that Jesus was sent by the Father.
Francis Schaeffer

Insomuch as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine

Engrave this upon my heart: There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story.
Mary Lou Kownacki

Love is never lost.  If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

We are only as good as what we love.
Sam Bellow

When a man sees that his neighbour hates him, then he must love him more than he did before to fill up the gap.
Rabbi Rafael

Every single person in our lives will disappoint us at some level.  Some days they’ll be busy when we need them to be still; other days they’ll be self-centered when we need them to concentrate on us.  Sometimes they’ll bruise us with hard words aimed right for the soft places in our soul.  They won’t meet all our emotional needs.  They can’t; they have too many needs of their own.  They’re sinners just like us.  Only our Creator can love us perfectly, the way He created us to be loved.  His love is the only thing that can define us without destroying us.
Lisa Harper

Always, love is a choice.  You come up against scores of opportunities every day to love or not to love.  You encounter hundreds of small chances to please your friends, delight your Lord, and encourage your family.  That’s why love and obedience are intimately linked- you can’t have one without the other.
Joni Eareckson Tada

The main evidence that we are growing in Christ is not exhilarating prayer experiences, but steadily increasing, humble love for other people.
Frederica Mathewes-Green

Allowing ourselves to be more loving is a most beautiful journey.
Barry Neil Kaufman

Authentic religion is not a theology test. It’s a love test.
Oliver Thomas

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
Unknown

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. Swedish proverb

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.  Love them anyway.
Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa

My weight is my love.
Augustine

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

God loves us the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford

The love of God is like the Amazon River flowing down to water one daisy.
Unknown

There is nothing that will not reveal its secrets if you love it enough. George Washington Carver

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is “what was the quality of our love?”
Richard Bach

Others may argue your beliefs, but they can’t refuse your love. Unknown

Not where I breath,
But where I love, I live.
Robert Southey

Love is of utmost importance.  Once you have set your will that you will learn the way of love, then there is no flaw or irritation in another person that you cannot bear…If this one commandment were kept- “Love one another”- I know that it would carry us a long way toward keeping all the rest of our Lord’s commands.
Teresa of Avila

The love of God is like the Amazon River flowing down to water one daisy.
Unknown

To please God…to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness…to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delight in, as an artist delights in this work or a father in a son…it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which your thoughts can hardly sustain.  But it is so!
C. S. Lewis

Tears are liquid love.
Faye Landrum

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that.  Hatred paralyses life; love releases it.  Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.  Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
Martin Luther King

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.  Love them anyway.
Mother Teresa

Not tongues nor faith nor prophecy nor knowledge nor martyrdom nor philanthropy, but love is the Christian’s mark of distinction.
Vance Havner

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.
Fulton J. Sheen

There is no greater love than the love that holds on where there seems nothing left to hold on to.
G. W. C Thomas

Love is the one business in which it pays to be an absolute spendthrift: give it away; throw it away; splash it over; empty your pockets; shake the basket; and tomorrow you’ll have more than ever.
Unknown 

The truth about man is that he needs to be loved the most when he deserves it the least.  Only God can fulfill this incredible need.  Only God can provide a love so deep it saves from the depths.
Unknown

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.
Dwight L. Moody

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is the finger of God on a man’s shoulder.
Charles Morgan

To live well is nothing other than to love God with all one’s heart, with all one’s soul and with all one’s efforts; from this it comes about that love is kept whole and uncorrupted.  No misfortune can disturb it.  It obeys only [God] and is careful in discerning things, so as not to be surprised by deceit or trickery.
Augustine of Hippo

You know, love is not something that you can learn by yourself.  Love is something that God can teach you.  It’s never too late.  I was 52 years old when it happened.  52 years.
Stan Pouw

All love is lost but upon God alone.
William Dunbar

The proof of who we are in Christ isn’t how many folks have come to the Lord through us. It isn’t how much we’ve contributed to the Lord’s work. It isn’t how sweetly we’ve sung his praises. It is, pure and simple, how we have loved each other.
Gayle Roper

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale