Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

For love is heaven and heaven is 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.

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

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.

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

Do not expect human beings to reward you, don't even think about it, just LOVE, because you know at the end of the day it will be God who will give you the reward.

The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

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

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.