“The love of Jesus can overcome all adversaries, even death itself.”
— Charles Spurgeon
I love treason but hate a traitor.
—Julius Caesar
All mankind love a lover.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
—Charles Dickens
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found -given- by experience.
—Carl Jung
The law of God exact he shall fulfill Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law: thy punishment He shall endure by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death
—John Milton
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
—Charles Dickens
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
—Plato
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
—Ernest Hemingway
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
—Søren Kierkegaard
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
—Blaise Pascal
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
—Søren Kierkegaard
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
—John Milton
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
—Blaise Pascal
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
—Charles Dickens
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mine, against which however in its risings I struggle, and which I strive to suppress, is a sadly depraved appetite, rooted in an inordinate love of this world.
—William Wilberforce
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
—Thomas Aquinas
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
—Oscar Wilde
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
—Oscar Wilde
When speaking of divine perfection, we signify that God is just and true and loving, the author of order, not disorder, of good, not evil.
We signify that he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he is order, that he is the very progress of.
—Plato
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.
—Thomas Aquinas
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
—Charlie Chaplin
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
—Thomas Aquinas
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
—Oscar Wilde
To love is to will the good of the other.
—Thomas Aquinas
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
—Charles Darwin