“The deepest urge in every human heart is to be in relationship with someone who absolutely delights in us.”

~ Larry Crabb, Psychologist

“All you need is love.” ~ The Beatles

“Love is all you need.” ~ The Beetles

“What’s love got to do with it? It’s just a secondhand emotion.”

~ Tina Turner

“What is love, anyway? Does anybody love anybody anyway?”

~ Howard Jones

“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.” ~ Bell Hooks, Poet & Author

“Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.” ~ M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist

“Love doesn’t really make the world go round. It just makes people dizzy so it looks like it.”

~ Martha Lupton

“Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.” ~ Diane Ackerman, Historian

“Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that ‘falling in love’ is love or at least one of the manifestations of love.” ~ M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

~ William Shakespeare

“The myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. As a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.” ~ M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist

“Since love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally. It is like knowledge. The wise man can teach all he knows and when he’s through he’ll still know all that he has taught.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

“The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.”

~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

“Relationship is the core of reality.”

~ Dr. Dan B. Allender, Psychologist

“Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

~ Eric Fromm, Psychologist

“Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

~ Lily Tomlin, Comedian

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I do not have a category for people I cannot love. The moment I allow such a category, I inhibit my own freedom.”

~ Mike Mason

“Love sought is good, But giv’n unsought is better.”

~ William Shakespeare

“I don’t want to live – I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

“God is love. Those who live in love live in God, and God in them.”

~ 1 John 4:16 (NIV)

“BAIT & SWITCH” The Bait =

The word “love”.

The Switch =

romance, passion, desire, attraction, infatuation, lust, seduction, etc.

“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

~ 1 John 4:8 (TNIV)

Love is as love does…

Love is not doing what makes you feel good, but doing what IS good, in spite of how you feel.

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“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

~ John 13:34-35 (TNIV)

“Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

~ John 15:13 (TNIV)

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

~ Romans 5:8 (TNIV)