Thou Shalt Love Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

Baal Shem Tov

#3. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

San Juan De La Cruz

#4. The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind ... Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" [Matthew 22:37, 39 KJV].

Billy Graham

#5. My mistress had taught me the precepts of God's Word: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.

Harriet Jacobs

#6. If ever thou shalt love,
In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
For such as I am all true lovers are,
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is beloved.

William Shakespeare

#7. My Father, Thou hast denied me this outward and seeming good, now enrich me with Thy love. Give me the gold of Thy favor, bless me indeed. Then, allot to others whatever Thou wilt, Thou shalt divide my portion, my soul shall wait Thy daily will. Do Thou bless me indeed, and I shall be content.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

Sigmund Freud

#9. My soul, get Calvary's blood-red rose into thy hand by faith, by love wear it, by communion preserve it, by daily watchfulness make it thine all in all, and thou shalt be blessed beyond all bliss, happy beyond a dream.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.

S.R. Crawford

#12. My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

William Shakespeare

#13. Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#14. Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

Gelett Burgess

#15. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Anonymous

#16. Thou shalt prove
That beauty is no beauty without love.

Thomas Campion

#17. Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues, - for thou wilt succumb by them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Lo, thou, my Love, art fair;
Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
Wherefore thou shalt not need
In beauty to despair;
For I accept thee so,
For fair.

[excerpt from "Christ to His Spouse"]

William Baldwin

#19. From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love
To long for, pureness to desire, a mount
Of consecration it were good to scale.

Jean Ingelow

#20. Thou shalt not condemn one's faith to strengthen thy own.

Ilango Boopalan

#21. Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox