Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Love is God's secret name.

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.

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

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

That with him were, what time the Love Divine

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.

Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God.

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

Love is the voice of God whispering to you from within yourself.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

What is love? Love to me is god.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.

Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.