We never love a person, but only qualities.
—Blaise Pascal
O may I grow in fear and love in desire to change worlds, in devotedness to Christ and his service.
—William Wilberforce
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Prefer the company of a stranger who loves the truth to the company of a friend who doesn’t.
—Leo Tolstoy
To fall in love does not mean to love.
You can fall in love and hate.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
—Charles Dickens
I pray GOD to open your eyes with a sense of his love.
—George Whitefield
To love at all is to be vulnerable. -C.S. Lewis
“When a man consciously realizes the love of God in his soul, he cannot want more than that.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Be consumed with love for Christ and let the flame burn continuously.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Social life is based on consciousness, not science. If there’s no honesty, no respect for truth, no respect for responsibilities, no love of one’s neighbor—in a word, if there’s no virtue—everything is in danger, everything crumbles.
—Leo Tolstoy
“God’s love never changes towards his people; the atonement never loses its efficacy[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
—Sigmund Freud
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. – C.S. Lewis
Love, love to JESUS, casts out fear.
—George Whitefield
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
—Blaise Pascal
Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
—Heraclitus
The course of true love never did run smooth.
—William Shakespeare
Love—not love toward a specific person but the spiritual condition of readiness to love everything—is the only condition in which we are conscious of the true spiritual source of our souls.
—Leo Tolstoy
“The love of Jesus is the source of salvation.
He loves,
he looks,
he touches us,
we live.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
—Blaise Pascal
Remember that the same spirit that lives in you lives in every other person, and therefore don’t just love but honor as holy the soul of every person as much as your own.
—Leo Tolstoy
Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can’t control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
—Sigmund Freud
In order to live by its own law, a bird must fly, a snake must crawl, a fish must swim, and a man must love. Therefore, if instead of loving people a man does evil to them, he behaves as strangely as a bird that tries to swim or a fish that tries to fly.
—Leo Tolstoy
He parted with the greatest glory, he underwent the greatest misery, he doth the greatest works that ever were, because he loves his spouse, – because he values believers.
—John Owen
“It ought to fill us with delight to know that we are loved of the Lord, with an everlasting and infinite love, even as Jesus Christ is loved.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
—Voltaire