Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

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.

If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.