Love Responsibility Quotes

What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.

Children change you. You have this overwhelming feeling of responsibility, of love - they're everything. They're yours. You know when you're cuddling them, cradling them, and you can smell their hair. I love that.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.