Lauryn Hill Quotes

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

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

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

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.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

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

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

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 God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad wrote.