Quotes About Agape Love

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Paul Silway

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

~R. Alan Woods [2007]

R. Alan Woods

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Peter Kreeft

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

Aberjhani

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Aberjhani

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

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

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

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

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

N'Zuri Za Austin

#29. 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

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

Ann Brashares

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

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Elise M. Boulding

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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.

#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. 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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Debasish Mridha