975 private quotes tagged love

“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“It is very easy to love alone.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.” — Michael Jackson

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“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.” — Charles L. Allen

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“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.” — Bobby Darin

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“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.” — Charles Morgan

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“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” — George Washington Carver

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“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” — Mother Teresa

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“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'” — Billy Graham

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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” — Mother Teresa

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“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.” — Mother Teresa

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“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.” — Mother Teresa

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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.” — Francis Quarles

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“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.” — Lawrence Welk

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“It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” — Walt Disney

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“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!” — Marie de France

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“Love is friendship set on fire.” — Jeremy Taylor

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“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” — Saint Basil

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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Elie Wiesel

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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?” — Anais Nin

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