Josh McDowell Quotes

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Love is not about getting - but giving.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

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

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

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

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

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

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.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.