John Piper Quotes

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

When love happens I won't shy away from sharing.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

When you love a woman don't be bothered about what others have said about love, because that is going to be an interference. You love a woman, the love is there, forget all that you have learned about love. Forget all Kinseys, forget all Masters and Johnsons, forget all Freuds and Jungs. Please don't become a language professor. Just love the woman and let love be there, and let love lead you and guide you into its innermost secrets, into its mysteries. Then you will be able to know what love is.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Remember to let her into your heart.

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.

I think it's impossible to be up close with people and to ask them to let you in if you're fake.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.

I believe the foundation of love is based on honesty and truth.