Josh McDowell Quotes

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.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

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.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Love is not about getting - but giving.

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.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

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.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

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

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the relationship; and in its refusal ever to regard the other as a thing, an object, a utilizability. Sex is an exchange of pleasures, of needs; love is a giving without return. It is this giving without return, this helping without reward, this surplus of pure good, that identifies the uniqueness of man as well as the true nature of the true marriage. This is the quintessence the great alchemy of sex is for.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.