Top 100 Love In Spite Of Quotes
#1. Happiness is.. rising in LOVE in spite of gravity; falling is old fashioned.
Vikrmn
#2. 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.
Thomas Merton
#3. Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.
Chriscinthia Blount
#4. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
L. Ron Hubbard
#5. It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in spite of bodily afflictions that pleases Heaven.
Walter Miller
#6. It does seem to me that some one might write stories that should be lively, natural and helpful tales in which the English should be good, the morals pure, and the characters such as we can love in spite of the faults that all may have.
Louisa May Alcott
#7. What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.
Christopher Earle
#8. To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#9. Where there is no love, one cannot be obliged to love in spite of herself.
Anonymous
#10. We continue to love in spite of the pain, tears & heartbreak. Perhaps the pain makes us stronger, the tear makes us braver & the heartbreak makes us wiser.
Jeanette
#11. And one of the things I learned is that one should live in spite of. Although, one should eat. Although, one should love. Although, it must die. Even it is often the same even though it pushes us forward. It was despite the fact that it gave me an unhappy anguish that was the creator of my own life.
Clarice Lispector
#12. We may have lots of differences,
We may not be the perfect couple.
But in-spite of those differences,
In-spite of those imperfection,
We are always at our best for each other ...
NerD_Seyer
#13. We all love our brothers, in spite of the fact that none of us has a clue what's really in their hearts.
Aaron Starmer
#14. I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run out of chances.
Ann Brashares
#15. Love is missing the taste of someone's morning breath. Thinking they're beautiful, even when their nose is Rudolph-red and their hair is bird's nest crazy. Love isn't putting up with someone in spite of their faults
it's adoring them because of them.
Emma Chase
#16. Joe, I think I might be clueless when it comes to love. Afraid I wouldn't know real love if it bit me in the ass." He chuckled in spite of himself. "Been there," he said. "Pretty recently, in fact." "I
Robyn Carr
#17. In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak.
Milan Kundera
#18. God saw your entire life from beginning to end, birth to hearse, and in spite of what he saw, he still dreams of having you by his side. Even with your faults and failures. Despite your muddles and missteps. He still stands near, arms open wide, ready to embrace you with a Father's love.
Max Lucado
#19. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
#20. I have always been their rock. A mother's unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.
Terry A. O'Neal
#21. You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.
Sudhir Kakar
#22. I love you," I murmur, and he smiles his heart-achingly shy smile, and I melt. "I will always love you, Christian."
"And I you," he says softly.
"In spite of my disobedience?" I raise my eyebrow.
"Because of your disobedience, Anastasia." He grins.
E.L. James
#23. Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
John Donne
#24. God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.
David B. Haight
#25. I'd never love you in spite of anything, Gabriel. I just love you.
Sylvain Reynard
#26. Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Leo Buscaglia
#28. Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
Julia Cameron
#30. My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all ... All my heart has ever wanted is you.
Stephanie Laurens
#31. Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both.
Max Lucado
#32. If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.
Donna Lynn Hope
#33. I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
Bette Midler
#34. In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
Bill Cosby
#35. I know ... I will never see or meet her again, because she is just a ghost from my dreams. In spite of this, she remains with me as a spark of hope. Because when she throws herself desperately into my arms and my hands embrace her, for the first and last time in my life I feel true love.
Alexandar Tomov
#36. You see her for who she really is, past all the disillusions most people get tangled up in when they think they are falling in love. You accept her flaws, and you love her just as much because of them as you do in spite of them.
Blakney Francis
#37. But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.
Marcel Proust
#38. Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.
Jim George
#39. It had just hit her why and how people could fall in love with Istanbul, in spite of all the sorrow it might cause them. It would not be easy to fall out of love with a city this heartbreakingly beautiful. With
Elif Shafak
#40. He makes me graceful, that's his skill. He makes me sexy, because that's what he is. He makes me feel loved, because in spite of his fifty shades, he has a wealth of love to give.
E.L. James
#41. Face red, but brave in spite of it, Ethan offered an even smaller box. My hands shook as i opened it.
Set in a gold promise ring, three small diamonds glittered. One for you, one for me, one for us, he said sweetly. I love you.
Ellen Hopkins
#42. No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start.
Hayley Williams
#43. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Alfred The Great
#44. How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.
Luanne Rice
#45. She surely can cook a fight from the most peaceful ingredients. But nothing worth doing is easy. I love her in spite of it. I love her because of it. I love her." And his face broke out in that grin again. "Every day's a new adventure, that's for sure.
Joe Abercrombie
#46. He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.
Vladimir Nabokov
#47. The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
Rollo May
#48. If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.
Stephen Richards
#49. I saw that deep-heart love meant loving someone in spite of and because of his limitations.
Lisa See
#50. Yet, it doesn't make us superfluous or unimportant, the fact that God doesn't need us,' I rushed on. 'Actually, quite the opposite. It's because He loves us in spite of not needing us that makes His love so, well, awesome.
Carolyn Weber
#51. God's grace - His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin - is the wellspring of our salvation.
Billy Graham
#52. I'd set out to write a book about how we learn to trust our own experience in the face of confusion, doubt, and anxiety. What I ended up with is the story of how we love each other in spite of immense limitations
Heather Sellers
#53. God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to freely choose to love or to hate Him, to receive Christ as Savior and Lord or to reject Him.
Dave Hunt
#54. I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.
Bruce Cockburn
#55. Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same--the image of God.
John Of Kronstadt
#56. The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and estimates as such the lost cause of the creature, and that in spite of its opposition He gives sentence in its favour, fashioning for it His own righteousness.
Karl Barth
#57. What is love? Love is what endures in spite of ups and downs and every damn thing in the way."
-ANOTHER HEAVEN- by Annu Subramanian
Annu Subramanian
#58. God loves you in spite of your mistakes
Thea Harris
#59. I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.
Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at the
world.
Susan Abulhawa
#60. Learning how to love your neighbor requires a willingness to draw on the strength of Jesus Christ as you die to self and live for Him. Living in this manner allows you to practice biblical love for others in spite of adverse circumstances or your feelings to the contrary.
John C. Broger
#61. My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
Thomas Hardy
#62. When I wrote to him, I wanted my letters to be sprightly, trivial, indifferent. In spite of myself, I imbued them with my love. I would have liked to make it seem powerful, sure of itself and sure of me, but I infused it, despite myself, with all my anxiety.
Jean Genet
#63. In spite of all the tragedy and cruelty, all humans have a kind heart, great spirit, and an insatiable love for the humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#64. And I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.
Tana French
#65. Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.
Teresa Medeiros
#66. The moment that every unrealised heart craves for. The unforgettable instant that a soul, clinging on to the purest memory of its previous life, longs for. The second, that in spite of a conspiracy of the gods, only a few lucky men experience. The moment when she enters his life.
Amish Tripathi
#67. Every person's worst fear-that no one will be able to love us in spite of our scars.
M. Leighton
#68. In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'
Therese Of Lisieux
#69. If I fall in love with you, it'll be because I know you inside and out, and because you're somebody I want to be a better person for - instead of in spite of.
Cara McKenna
#70. I have come to love you in spite of
Do I want to be loved in spite of? ... Does anyone?
Darin Strauss
#71. And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
Colleen McCullough
#72. It is infatuation that is blind. Love sees the flaws only too clearly, but goes on caring just the same, in spite of all
Joan Smith
#73. But ultimately we attempted to find some middle ground because at the end of the day we love each other in spite of all our many and vast differences.
Melanie Shankle
#74. For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.
Derek Walcott
#75. Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
Sean Penn
#76. This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
Jane Austen
#77. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C.S. Lewis
#78. To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
Taylor Swift
#79. In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I could not live without a cat.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#80. If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#81. In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
Bertrand Barere
#82. I've fallen in love with this woman, in spite of her smart mouth and wicked temper, or maybe because of them. Ellie Mason is the first woman I've ever loved, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let her slip through my fingers again.
Carmen Jenner
#83. She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
William Faulkner
#84. Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
Margaret Deland
#85. The story was heavy in her hands, the book spread open like legs, the letters very small i spite of describing such a big moment
Natalia Jaster
#86. [ ... ] my life has fallen into categories - in spite of everything - gradiatons of her.
Life before Scarlett. Life with Scarlett. Life after Scarlett.
Wanting her.
Needing her.
Having her.
Losing her.
R.K. Lilley
#87. Moinous reaches for Sucette's hand and squeezes it. Oh but I do love you, I do, I swear, in spite of them. However, for the first time in his life Moinous understands what quicksand love is.
Raymond Federman
#88. Sometimes when you have a wild dream [massive vision]people intend to run away from you but is not that they hate you or jealous of you. Simply they can't see what you see, they can't hear what you hear and they don't know what you know. The best thing is to love them in spite of their silence.
Euginia Herlihy
#89. If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.
Ovid
#90. True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#91. There was a silence. In spite of their sadness - because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another - the three young men were happy.
Aldous Huxley
#92. I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
Anne Lamott
#93. Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#94. What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.
Julia Green
#95. In spite of your lies and deceit, I admit I do love you darling, I really do. But I must leave you anyway, because there is nothing left within you that I can live with.
Tonny K. Brown
#96. If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.
Pope Benedict XVI
#97. Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo
#98. Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them.
Rick Cormier
#99. The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
#100. For your love to stand the test of time, you must commit to behaviors that protect your marriage, in spite of how you feel about your spouse on that particular day.
Jennifer Jeanne Patterson
