100+ Our Love Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Harville Hendrix, Helen Hunt (1994). “Couples Companion: Meditations & Exercises for Getting the Love You Want: A Workbook for Couples”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

topic: Effort, Depth, Our Love

What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Important, Our Love, God Love, Fruitfulness

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

source: Iris Murdoch (1962). “An Unofficial Rose: A Novel”

topic: Love Is, Gold, Our Love, Shabby

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

topic: Mistake, Starting Over, Our Love, Starting All Over Again, Starting Over Again

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

- Jacques Maritain

topic: Beauty, Love Is, Our Love

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

topic: Dream, Memories, Our Love

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

topic: Funeral, Trying, Our Love

Romance is all about making a story out of our love

- Joey Comeau

source: Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" interview series, www.asofterworld.com.

topic: Romance, Stories, Our Love

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

- John Calvin

topic: Powerful, Men, Our Love

Our love cannot be measured, it just is.

- John Paul Stevens

topic: Our Love

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

topic: Prayer, Goes On, Our Love

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

source: John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.160, SPCK

topic: Christian Inspirational, Our Love, Love Grows

Our love can't be measured. It just is.

- Jon Stevens

topic: Love, Dream, Our Love

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Affliction, Our Love, Cures, Everything Is Illuminated

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

- Joni Mitchell

source: Song: All I Want

topic: Love, Romance, Our Love

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

topic: Desire, Enough Time, Our Love

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

topic: Love, Gun, Our Love

It will never be about our love for God. It will always be about His magnificent love for us.

- Joseph Prince

source: FaceBook post by Joseph Prince from Nov 27, 2014

topic: Our Love, God Love, Magnificent, Servant Of God

Our love is our burden.

- Julianna Baggott

topic: Love Is, Our Love, Burden

We survive our love because we go on loving.

- June Jordan

topic: Love Is, Goes On, Our Love

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

- Kathryn Schulz

topic: Our Love, Understood, Being Wrong

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

topic: Integrity, Men, Our Love

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

topic: Giving, Confusion, Our Love

This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first.

- Lana Del Rey

topic: Girl, Together, Our Love

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

topic: Our Love, Uniforms, Calm, Venus In Furs

Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.

- Lierre Keith

topic: Love Is, Verbs, Our Love

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

source: Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.85, Penguin

topic: Together, Our Love, Remember

The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love.

- Magda Gerber

source: Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

topic: Baby, Our Love, Care

We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Soulmate, Order, Our Love, Importunate

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

topic: Our Love, Moments, Universe

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

- Matt Walsh

topic: Stories, Our Love, Love Story

I wish our love was right now.

- Megan McCafferty

topic: Wish, Our Love

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Cities, Rome, Our Love

We love even when our love is not requited.

- Mortimer Adler

topic: Love Is, Our Love

Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start

- Mother Teresa

topic: Home, Our Love, Unloved, Easy Love, Being Unloved

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

topic: Hurt, Our Love, Shy

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

topic: Joy, Doe, Our Love

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

topic: Blessed, Childhood, Our Love, Happy Childhood

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

source: Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Forgiveness, Our Love, Overcoming, Power Of Forgiveness, Forgiveness Love

We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Our Love, Needs, Shows, Love You So Much, When A Man Loves A Woman

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

topic: Beautiful, Mind, Our Love

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

topic: Grief, Our Love, Want

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

- Radclyffe Hall

source: The Well of Loneliness ch. 37 (1928)

topic: Faithful, World, Our Love

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Needs, Our Love, Terrible

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

- Ralph Washington Sockman

source: Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). “Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment”

topic: Our Love, Stewardship, Financial, Financial Stewardship

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

topic: Quality, Earth, Our Love, Only Thing That Matters, Things That Matter

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

source: Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.276, Macmillan

topic: Together, Our Love, Height

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

topic: Issues, Earth, Our Love

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

source: Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.57, Thomas Nelson

topic: Our Love, God Love, Neighbor

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

- Rick Warren

topic: Prayer, People, Our Love, Our Prayers

It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Our Love, Needs, Serving Others

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

topic: Views, Cost, Our Love, Differing Views

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

topic: Animal, Our Love, Able, Tamed

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

source: Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Land, Giving, Our Love

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

source: Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Love Is, Veins, Our Love, Faded

All our loves are first loves.

- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

source: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1986). “Mainland”, Bantam

topic: Inspirational, First Love, Our Love

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

topic: Self Love, Our Love, Source

Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.

- Terence Cooke

topic: Prayer, Catholic, Our Love, Love Grows

Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish.Â 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

topic: Love Is, Perfection, Our Love

We can choose to make our love for each other what our lives are really about.

- Werner Erhard

topic: Motivational, Thought Provoking, Our Love

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

topic: Heart, Enmity, Our Love

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

topic: Christian, Our Love, Care

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

topic: Forever, Our Love, Lasts

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

topic: Believe, Water, Our Love, Worthy Of Love, Clean Water

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

source: "The Future Eve". Book by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, 1886.

topic: Love Is, Our Love, Said

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

source: "Watch My Show: House of Cards' Beau Willimon Answers Our Showrunner Survey". Interview with Michael Schneider, www.tvguide.com. March 13, 2013.

topic: Struggle, Love Life, Our Love, Power Struggle

To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.

- Charles Villiers Stanford

topic: Love Is, Our Love, Sentimental, Christ Love

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Our Love, Humans, Human Relations

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

- Marcia Whicker

topic: Leadership, Leader, Our Love, One Sided

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

topic: Reality, Images Of Love, Our Love, Reality Of Love

If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.

- Roderick L. Evans

topic: Our Love, Worship, God Love, True Worship

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

topic: Yield, Admiration And Respect, Our Love, Sangha

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

source: Erin McCarthy (2005). “The Pregnancy Test”, p.108, Kensington Books

topic: Our Love, Matter, Flaws

our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

- Rosario Ferre

source: Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

topic: Depth, Floating, Our Love, Iceberg

The genuiness of our worship cannot be measured in decibels of sound, and although it is vital that we express our love for God vocally, He looks to see the evidence in our lives.

- Graham Kendrick

topic: Sound, Looks, Our Love

Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.

- Margaret D. Nadauld

topic: Father, Doe, Our Love

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.1793, e-artnow

topic: Our Love, Different, Drifting

It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1978). “Anna Karenina”

topic: Stronger, Our Love, Grows

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

- Pat Conroy

source: Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

topic: Fire, Body, Our Love

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

- Patti Smith

source: Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.200, A&C Black

topic: Our Love, Way, Contradiction

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

source: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.147

topic: Attachment, Inanimate Objects, Our Love

It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

- Lil Wayne

source: Song: Get Too Comfortable

topic: Making Love, Our Love, Granted

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: World, Our Love, God Love

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

source: "The First Great Commandment". Jeffrey R. Holland's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2012.

topic: Children, Giving, Our Love

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Joy, Soul, Our Love

Our love is God, let's go get a Slushie.

- Christian Slater

source: "Fictional character: Jason Dean". "Heathers", www.imdb.com. 1988.

topic: Love Is, Heathers, Our Love

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Purpose, Our Love, Bhakti Yoga

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

- M. Scott Peck

source: M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

topic: Real, Love Is, Our Love, Extra Mile

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.285, Faber & Faber

topic: Moving, Heart, Our Love

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

topic: Our Love, Wheels, Dignity

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Suffering, Our Love, Proof

We can thrive and bloom if we are rooted in our love of the Savior.

- Quentin L. Cook

topic: Our Love, Thrive, Savior

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: "A Movement Moment" by Kenny Ausubel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2017.

topic: Lying, Our Love, Homeland

Our love lives because I live.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love Life, Our Love

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

- Therese of Lisieux

source: St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.93, ICS Publications

topic: God, Jesus, Our Love

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

- Daniel Handler

source: "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival: Part One". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2018.

topic: Heart, Our Love, Broke, Broke My Heart

But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Hair, Too Late, Our Love, Anagrams

We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

- George W. Bush

source: "Bush: 'America Is a Nation of Prayer" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2006.

topic: America, People, Our Love

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

- John Donne

source: 'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Anniversary'

topic: Decay, Our Love, Destruction

We put our love where we have put our labor.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.161, Harvard University Press

topic: Effort, Our Love, Work Effort

Our Heavenly Father can appreciate our love for Him by how well we serve Him and how well we serve our fellowmen.

- Thomas S. Monson

source: Twitter post from Apr 13, 2016

topic: Father, Appreciate, Our Love

Despite the changes which come into our lives and with gratitude in our hearts, may we fill our days-as much as we can-with those things which matter most. May we cherish those we hold dear and express our love to them in word and in deed.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Gratitude, Heart, Our Love

Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.

- Thomas S. Monson

source: Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

topic: Our Love, May, Forfeit