Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

I know, being a father myself, what my interpretation of true love is, or the essence of love, and you can apply it to other things besides human beings.

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

Love is a spiritual grace. We learn it from God.

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

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.

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

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.

Jesus' love for His children continues to be the greatest love story of all time.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.

Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.