Love

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40 Mark 12:30-31 Luke 10:27

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” 1 John 2:15-16

“There is no fear in love; perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18

“Love does not rejoice in evil but rejoices in the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty thru good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present; it hopes for the future and it doesn’t brood over the past. It is the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have it, no matter what else is there, it’s not enough..” – Ann Landers

“Nothing anyone does is because of you. Once you have this awareness, and you do not take it personally, compassion and understanding will lead you to forgiveness.” – Don Miguel Ruiz (“The Mastery of Love”)

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Proverbs 17:17

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for their friends.” John 15:13