Richard Paul Evans Quotes

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.