Top 100 Love Thy Quotes
#1. When an Angel whispers in your ear, it is your heart that hears thy message.
Molly Friedenfeld
#2. I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
Rabindranath Tagore
#3. To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.
Edward Young
#4. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
William Shakespeare
#5. Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.'
'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly objected.
'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet.
Edward Rutherfurd
#6. Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#7. Better to sit at the waters birth,
Than a sea of waves to win;
To live in the love that floweth forth,
Than the love that cometh in.
Be thy a well of love, my child,
Flowing, and free, and sure;
For a cistern of love, though undefiled,
Keeps not the spirit pure.
George MacDonald
#8. Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.
Yet love me
wilt thou? Open thine heart wide,
And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#9. But, love, hate on; for now I know thy mind.
Those that can see, thou lov'st; and I am blind.
William Shakespeare
#10. Bold Lover, never, never canst Thou kiss, Though winning near the goalyet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though Thou hast not Thy bliss, Forever wilt Thou love, and she be fair
John Keats
#13. His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker.
Henny Youngman
#14. Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
William Shakespeare
#16. Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there I be buried.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
Alfred Austin
#19. Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
John Donne
#20. Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. Fountain of Love my source is in thee - Loving thy will my spirit is free - Beautiful day when all of us see - The hope of the world is Love!
Peace Pilgrim
#22. Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#23. There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
Bryan Procter
#24. Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,
and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight,
As brilliant and as bright
As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes,
Lost in a soft amaze
I gaze, I gaze
John Keats
#25. Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
Robert Breault
#26. Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#27. O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.
Not by finishing, but by transforming to
infinite for infinite joy!
Debasish Mridha
#28. There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."
Ole Hallesby
#29. Being a man with a big heart, a man of consideration, a man who wants to do the right thing by people, and a follower of Christ (who said "Love thy enemy" -- though I would add "from a distance")[...]
Flavor Flav
#30. O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.
Christina Rossetti
#31. Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.
William Shakespeare
#32. By Love alone is God enjoyed, by Love alone delighted in, by Love alone approached or admired. His Nature requires Love, thy nature requires Love. The law of Nature commands thee to Love Him: the Law of His nature, and the Law of thine.
Thomas Traherne
#33. Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
#34. Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be:
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee,
A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.
Robert Herrick
#35. Hard to love thy enemies before dismantle their weaponry.
Toba Beta
#36. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!
James Hogg
#37. If thou didst ever thy dear father love - Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
William Shakespeare
#38. ROMEO: I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;
And but thou love me, let them find me here:
My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.
William Shakespeare
#39. Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.
John Fletcher
#40. I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!
Paul Tillich
#41. I call hellfire a threat," Natasha said, " and 'love thy neighbor' a value. But I believe in hell, or something close to it. I think hell is what we get right here on earth when people trade their spiritual and political values in on spiritual and political threats.
David James Duncan
#42. Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different.
Helen Mirren
#43. Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#44. Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
Charles Darwin
#45. Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
Richard Rolle
#46. Live and let live.
Love thyself, in order to love thy man.
Smart, independent women attract men.
Titania Hudson
#48. Yet do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young
William Shakespeare
#49. Thou shalt not condemn one's faith to strengthen thy own.
Ilango Boopalan
#50. Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death
Viktor E. Frankl
#51. All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee.
Henry Van Dyke
#52. Kindle in thy heart the flame of love.
Rumi
#53. Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,
Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
John Milton
#54. Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
Maimonides
#55. But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick muse doth give another place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;
William Shakespeare
#56. In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
Baha'u'llah
#57. Relaxing me from head to feet
Love masters me, the bitter sweet
O'er thy limbs breathing;
Yea, Eros now, the god born blind
Sweeps my soul like the mountain wind
Through the oaks seething.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#58. How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Thomas A Kempis
#59. Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. How do you love? With everything thy heart holds will kindness find its abode in you, with you? Feel the senses that the touch of another brings, behold thy jumping heart when lips part and you enter into loves sweet suffering. Take hold, make thy grip tight for I also know of losing.
Tonny K. Brown
#61. What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.
Christopher Moore
#62. I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
William Shakespeare
#63. E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
thy flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die.
William Cowper
#64. Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.
Pearl S. Buck
#65. It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.
Lew Wallace
#66. Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.
Aaron Lauritsen
#67. I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence
Rumi
#68. Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.
Patricia Briggs
#70. Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#72. If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'
Coventry Patmore
#73. If you pray for thy neighbour, you sow a seed of love in thy heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep;
Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
Saints out of heaven with palms.
Seen by thy light
Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
Love is a pouting child.
Jean Ingelow
#75. Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
Aleister Crowley
#76. Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.
John Ruskin
#77. There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught.
Jerry Lawler
#78. Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me
Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen
Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.
Sarah Doudney
#79. Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
William Penn
#80. I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.
Ja Rule
#81. O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable
William Shakespeare
#82. Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!
William Blake
#83. For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.
Edmund Waller
#84. In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun.
"I leave my answers in tears upon the grass.
Rabindranath Tagore
#85. Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know thee as thou art revealed in Scripture and the breaking of bread. Grant this for the sake of thy love, amen.
Jan Karon
#86. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.
Aleister Crowley
#87. I, too, await
The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
William Butler Yeats
#88. But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.
D.H. Lawrence
#89. Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!
William Shakespeare
#90. When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
Oswald Chambers
#91. Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctor's spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
And lap me in delight.
Charles Sprague Sargent
#92. So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end
William Shakespeare
#93. The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self.
Russell M. Nelson
#94. When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.
Joseph Addison
#95. Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden
#97. Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!
Heloise D'Argenteuil
#98. Smile upon those that are downhearted and sad; lift the load from those that find theirs too heavy to bear, in gentleness, in kindness, in long-suffering, in patience, in mercy, in brotherly love. And as ye show forth these to thy fellow man, the ways and the gates of glory open before thee.
Edgar Cayce
#99. Thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute.
William Shakespeare
#100. And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams
In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
Edgar Allan Poe