Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"We're called to love our enemies, which is radically different from liking them."
Rob Bell
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"Real love is not a feeling but a commitment to care for another person."
Henri Nouwen
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength, being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."
Henri Nouwen
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"Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love imperfectly."
Henri Nouwen
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"Love without boundaries is not love but absorption."
Henri Nouwen
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"The greatest form of love is to lay down your life for your friends, but the second greatest might be to show up for them on an ordinary Tuesday."
Tony Campolo
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"We are all broken and beautiful and loved beyond measure."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"We are called to be lovers of the world, not judges of it."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"To love is to be vulnerable, and vulnerability is where the sacred lives."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"We are called to love not just those who love us but those who oppose us."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"We learn to love by being loved first."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"We are healed in the presence of those who see us and love us as we are."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"Love is the ultimate reality—everything else is commentary."
Richard Rohr
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"Our job is not to defend God; our job is to love our neighbor."
Richard Rohr
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"We learn to love by loving, not by thinking about love."
Richard Rohr
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"The universe itself is a self-emptying love that invites us to participate."
Richard Rohr
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"Real love is not possessive; it is liberating."
Richard Rohr
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"God's love is not conditional on our performance or morality."
Richard Rohr
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"We must learn to see with the eyes of love."
Richard Rohr
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"The universe is a love letter written by God to God."
Richard Rohr
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"Love is the only force that can transform a human heart completely."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"To understand another is to love them."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"God is love, and love is the most powerful force in the universe"
Rob Bell
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"Love is the most subversive force in any system"
Rob Bell
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"We're called to love our enemies as a revolutionary act"
Rob Bell
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"Love multiplies when shared and diminishes when hoarded"
Rob Bell
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"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image."
Thomas Merton
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"Love is our true destiny."
Thomas Merton
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
Thomas Merton
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"To love action is to lose the capacity to love the actor."
Thomas Merton