Agape's Quotes

#1. Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.

Peter Kreeft

#2. Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

Peter Kreeft

#3. You have to treat your car with love. And I don't mean love of an object. You see, that's just wrong. That's materialism. You have to love your car like it's sentient being, like it can love you back. Now, that's some deep-down agape love.

Sherman Alexie

#4. I don't want what love is. I want what love is supposed to be.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#5. I contend that those who Agape can only administer mercy and grace."

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#6. With mouths agape, they stared in awe at the floor of fire and wall of flame. Atop a horse of golden flames that whipped and licked the leather reins, untouched by the fire that twisted and burned, sat Heimdallr, guardian of the Bilrost.

Angela B. Chrysler

#7. You don't want anything from them except for them to exist and you to see them sometimes and talk to them, and maybe for them to like you back.

Jo Walton

#8. Agape is an obedient response of availability to God, not a feeling. But, although it is not a feeling, its ultimate end is a feeling.

Beth Moore

#9. For God is love; and that God loves us at all is a miracle."

~R. Alan Woods [2007]

R. Alan Woods

#10. Agape love is ... profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. Everywhere you find yourself a great opportunity for you to manifest agape love and give. This must be your lifestyle everyday.

Paul Silway

#12. Agape is the concrete commitment to the flourishing of someone or something outside of oneself. Even and perhaps especially when that flourishing, hence the joy, is threatened.

Bas Heijne

#13. Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Pope Francis

#14. Bono has commented often that U2 did everything the wrong way around. Other bands started singing about girls and then found the issues in the cosmos and started singing about God; U2 started singing about God and eventually ended up doing a love album.

Steve Stockman

#15. Very Nice to meet you all"
They all floated in silence as if waiting on something when it dawned on me that they were waiting for me to get in. I pulled off my shirt and tossed it with my towel. When I turned around their mouths were agape.
"What?"
"N-nothing" Finley said, her eyes wide.

Fisher Amelie

#16. August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would have the same effect as pain or music? No, I must have missed that lesson."

She stared at him, agape. "August, was that sarcasm?

Victoria Schwab

#17. Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Aberjhani

#18. If the Love of Christ in us and through us does not affect others as it has us, then it is not authentic".

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#19. While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Chinua Achebe

#20. That was the thing about Ben. He could get away with saying shit like that. I totally couldn't. I wasn't big or masculine enough. In my mind, anyway. But Ben could get all agape on your ass, and you'd just sit there like, huh. Agape. Interesting.

Bill Konigsberg

#21. One of my roommates called it 'agape.' I'd never heard the word before, but it was her favorite word, and I was instantly enamored because the definition of agape is loving a person for exactly who they are - not who we hope they'll become with enough fixing.

Hannah Brencher

#22. No one said a word for some time. Everyone stared at Hadrian in wonder, including Albert, whose mouth hung agape.

It was the duchess who finally found words to sum up their collective thoughts. "Well, aren't you just an astonishment topped with surprises!

Michael J. Sullivan

#23. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy.
Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love.
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful.
Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.

Rob Bell

#24. I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, it's understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a vision of some sort, a vision of love, of 'agape', of the essential value of each and every living thing.

Alexander McCall Smith

#25. I was pondering the Greek ideals of love. Agape, of course, the highest love, the love that Gods feel. Then eros, romantic love; and philia, the love of friends; and storge, the love of family.

Cassandra Clare

#26. On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine ... no matter what you've done or haven't done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!

Joyce Meyer

#27. This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Aberjhani

#28. It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God.

David Jeremiah

#29. There are enough hours in a day to know that you are truly loved."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#30. When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

Soren Kierkegaard

#31. The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Stephen Kendrick

#32. He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or he wouldn't know where to begin? Or because he's in awe of his own miracle? That's how I picture him, his mouth slightly agape, his eyes wide in disbelief.

Jon Cohen

#33. My love is like agape and not eros.

Debasish Mridha

#34. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Mother Teresa

#35. I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.

Sri Chinmoy

#36. There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.

Stephen Kendrick

#37. Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?

Karl Barth

#38. Just as God, above all, is free of every need and self-interest, the spiritual man who has the Spirit struggles and becomes perfected in the love according to Christ, love that is delivered of all need and self-interest.

John Romanides

#39. When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

Mother Teresa

#40. Ronan glanced at me and did a completely ridiculous, cartoonish double-take complete with wide eyes, agape mouth, raised eyebrows, and three blinks.

L. H. Cosway

#41. Agape is disinterested love ... Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes ... Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#42. What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

Max Lucado

#43. How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of "God as Agape" is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds.

John David Geib

#44. This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Peter Kreeft

#45. Agape is your genesis. Loving everyone around you is what you are all about." (Our love for one another is awakened by God's love for us.)

Francois Du Toit

#46. I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, "Love one another as I have loved you." Ask yourself "How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?" Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Mother Teresa

#47. Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

Elise M. Boulding

#48. God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

David Bentley Hart

#49. Agape, eros, and chastity, a heady combination that would make even the strongest man fall to his knees

Sylvain Reynard

#50. He drifted away from Connie, leaving her with her mouth agape.

Ancelli

#51. And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#52. Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#53. I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling.

Colleen Hoover

#54. Agape love, on the other hand, is unselfish, unconditional, and unstoppable. It is based upon choice and commitment, not feelings. So unless this kind of love forms the foundation of your marriage, the wear and tear of time could destroy it.

Alex Kendrick

#55. Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Aberjhani

#56. Friendship evangelism' is the freedom to Agape others without an agenda (Young)."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#57. Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Ann Brashares

#58. Agape love is selfless love ... the love God wants us to have isn't just an emotion but a conscious act of the will - a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.

Billy Graham