1. To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse. For richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
– The Book of Common Prayer: Solemnization of Matrimony
2. God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture it to us.
– Martin Luther
3. God, the best maker of all marriages, combine your hearts into one.
– William Shakespeare
4. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
– Henry Drummond
5. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
– C. S. Lewis
6. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
– David Grayson
7. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who
receive it.
– Dr. Karl Menninger
8. He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon out equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we do the least of all.
– Henry Drummond
9. Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
– C. S. Lewis
10. I have often heard, "I love God but just don't like His people." This may sound glib, but as John explained, this is a basic deception as we do not really love God unless we also love His people. The Scriptures also go to great lengths to explain that love is not to be based on whether people are lovable or not.
– Rick Joyner
11. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
– G. K. Chesterton
12. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
– John Harrigan
13. Faults are thick where love is thin.
– English Proverb
14. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
– Mother Teresa
15. Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
– Henry Ward Beecher
16. The first duty of love is to listen.
– Paul Tillich
17. Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.
– J. C. Ryle
18. It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters.
– Mother Teresa
19. If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.
– Fr. Richard P. McBrien
20. Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.
– C. S. Lewis
21. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
– Robert Quillen
22. Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
– Og Mandino
23. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
– Karen Sunde
24. When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
– C. S. Lewis
25. Jesus is not impressed by our success in anything other than love.
– Shawn Bolz