Toni Morrison Quotes

You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

God has given His children a love that is so great in Christ that the world can't touch it with chocolates, roses, or diamonds.

'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint a picture of two people still in love after 40 years, that's a pretty good message.

Love is something eternal.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.