20 Timeless Quotes on Love

Love.

I asked all of Life Teen’s friends on Facebook to share their favorite quotes on love. You shared insight from saints, poets, authors, and from Scripture. This is definitely a blog you will want to print and hang on your wall.

1. “The greatest romance one can find, is to fall in love with God. The greatest journey one could embark on, is to seek Him. The greatest achievement one can obtain, is to find Him.”~ St. Augustine
2. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” ~ Mother Teresa
3. “Fall in love with the Eucharist and everything else will fall into place.” ~ Fr. David Herrera
4. “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” ~ 1 John 4:16
5. “Love for a person must consist in affirmation that the person has a value higher than that of an object for consumption or use… It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person’s good.” ~ Pope John Paul II
6. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness…” ~ Peter Ustinov, actor
7. ‎”Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed ‘ecstasy,’ not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an ongoing exodus out of the closed inward-looking self towards its liberation through self- giving, and this towards authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.” ~ Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est
8. “Love means loving the unlovable or else it is no virtue at all.” ~ GK Chesterton
9. “Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick tempered, it does not brood over injury, does not rejoice over wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  ~ 1 Cor. 13: 4-6
10. “In the triangle of love between ourselves, God and other people, is found the secret of existence, and the best foretaste, I suspect, that we can have on earth of what heaven will probably be like.” ~ Samuel Shoemaker


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11. “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” ~ Jesus, John 15:13
12. “We love because He first loved us.” ~ 1 John 4:19
13. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, then keep loving, there can be no more hurt, only love.” ~ Mother Theresa
14. ‎”For love, to the sacrifice of my life.” ~ St. Maximillian Kolbe
15. “To love another person is to see the face of God.” ~ Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
16. “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” ~ John 13:35
17. ‎”In Heaven there will be no anguish and no duty of turning away from our earthly Beloveds. First, because we shall have turned already; from the portraits to the Original, from the rivulets to the Fountain, from the creatures He made loveable to Love Himself. But secondly, because we shall find them all in Him. By loving Him more than them we shall love them more than we now do.” ~ C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
18. ‎”True love always imposes restrictions on itself–for the sake of others–whether it be the saint who detaches himself from the world in order to more readily adhere to Christ, or the husband who detaches himself from former acquaintances to belong more readily to the spouse of his choice.” ~ Fulton Sheen
19. “Love sought is good, but love given unsought is better.” ~ William Shakespear
20. “What we love we shall grow to resemble.” ~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux