1 john on Romantic Love

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

A true relationship is two unperfect people refusing to give up on each other.

There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast”; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.

In love. What does that even mean? “Love” is a junk drawer we dump all sorts of ideas into, just because we don’t have anywhere else to put them. I “love” God, and I “love” fish tacos. See the probl...

So, while the long history of religious oppression and hypocrisy is profoundly sobering, the earnest seeker must look beyond the behavior of flawed humans in order to find the truth. Would you condemn...

My Great-Aunt May had a love affair when she was in her 70’s. Obese, balding, her hands and legs mishappen by arthritis, she did not fit the stereotype of a woman romatically loved. But she was — by a...

Love makes people do crazy things. The stories we tell in literature and film are full of examples of the crazy things people will do for love. Love empowers Odysseus through madness and suffering, dr...

Love is the crazy, mad, and perhaps ridiculous gesture of saying yes to life, of seeing it as worthy of our embrace and even worthy of our total sacrifice.

The question of performance-free love transcends ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status. “Am I forever loved for who I am? Is the background elevator music to our hearts.

Love is not an affection feeling, rather it’s a steady wish for the other’s good as far as it can be obtained.

“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

You shall love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart.

After C. S. Lewis lost his wife Joy to cancer, he wrote these words about the inextricable link between love, suffering, and vulnerability: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your...

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

To love is to will the good of another. .

Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair. So sung a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the cattle’s feet; B...

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.

My weight is my love. Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.

Only the beautiful is loved . . . we cannot help loving what is beautiful.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then, and be “safe”?

The invitation of love is not a proposal for self-improvement or any other kind of achievement. Love is beyond success and failure, doing well or doing poorly.... Love is a gift.

All-loving God, we confess our motivations are often not influenced by your love. We act according to what will bring us the best outcome. We love ourselves before we love you. Help us to grow deeper ...

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assura...

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.