What Is The Definition Of Love Quotes

#1. What is the definition of "love"? Jesus answered that by depicting a man meeting material, physical, and economic needs through deeds. Caring for people's material and economic needs is not an option for Jesus. He refused to allow the law expert to limit the implications of this command to love.

Timothy J. Keller

#2. Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)

Robin R. Meyers

#3. Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It's the inability to relate to another human being. It's the inability to love.

Richard Yates

#4. The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Penn Jillette

#5. I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

Spike Jonze

#6. Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to dictate our relationships with others and ourselves.

David W. Earle

#7. What then is worship? Here's the definition I came up with: worship is the inner attitude of a redeemed heart that is reaching toward God in love, awe, trust and gratitude.

Donnie Brannen

#8. We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

Fulton J. Sheen

#9. It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Criss Jami

#10. Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

Bell Hooks

#11. ..And if I'm looking for a definition of love then perhaps this is it. That another person can help fill the empty space inside us. Even when they're gone.

Nicholas Hogg

#12. True love, by definition, means "someone that is truly loved". But true love must be reciprocated, or it is only excrutiatingly unbearable and devistating - a never-ending lonely night in an empty room.

A.M. Hudson

#13. My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.

Whitney Cummings

#14. Everyone has their definition of love. There have been countless songs sung about it. A gazillion books, articles, and poems written about it. There are experts on love who will tell you how to get it, keep it, and get over it.

Alison G. Bailey

#15. Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Judith Perelman Rossner

#16. I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.

Biz Stone

#17. Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment.

Miya Yamanouchi

#18. For this was a kiss of definition. A kiss of understanding. For a marriage absent pretense. And a love without design.

Renee Ahdieh

#19. ...I often wondered about the definition of home. Is it the place where you live, or is it the place where the people you love reside?...

Becky Aikman

#20. I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

Dean Koontz

#21. And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.

Robert Penn Warren

#22. I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.

Gavin Rossdale

#23. Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

Brit Marling

#24. What is love? I have asked this question countless times, and the best answer I can get is that it's a "feeling that we feel when we feel a feeling." That's not much of a definition, is it? Love is hard to define. We feel it, but we can't define it. Sometimes we find it hard to express it in words.

Cleveland McLeish

#25. Then, by your definition... I'm in love with you.

Angela N. Blount

#26. What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule.... This is what receives your care and attention
an by definition, your love.

Wayne Muller

#27. Maybe this, then, was the definition of love. When you wanted someone, needed her, adored her still, even when you were utterly furious and quite ready to tie her to the bed just to keep her from going out and making more trouble. This

Julia Quinn

#28. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. Love and desire...they aren't the same but they go hand in hand. To say you love someone is to say you have the desire for good things for them, that you desire to DO good things for them. One of the worst things the enemy does is change the definition of love in the minds of a people.

J. Evan Johnson

#30. If someone isn't in your definition of "gorgeous" or "beautiful", it doesn't give you the right to call them ugly.

Abdullah Bashir

#31. I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

Rachel Cusk

#32. Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!

Christina Engela

#33. And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.

Aberjhani

#34. Love is always by definition a choice

Sunday Adelaja

#35. The definition of Ar-Rahman: The fact that we only take from Allah and He only gives; we never thank but He still gives; we rarely remember Him but He still increases in love for us.

Nouman Ali Khan

#36. Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Paul H. Dunn

#37. My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

Sharon Tate

#38. Love is the gift. You cannot go and look for the gift by yourself. That action is contrary to the definition of the word gift. Therefore, single ladies should wait to be chosen and to receive love as a gift.

Khuliso Mamathoni

#39. love is far bigger than any definition or description. Love nurtures. Love also challenges. Love is peaceful. Love is courageous. Love is lighthearted. Love is

Akemi G

#40. If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.

Leah Raeder

#41. When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us.

David Levithan

#42. When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

Sarah Kay

#43. Our generation delimited the definition & horizon of Love in a box that mainly refers to love between a boy & a girl. Love has a broader & profound meaning beyond this box. Surely, the highest state of love is Love of God, a love between creations & the Creator.

Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb

#44. Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.

Penny Reid

#45. God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

Francis Chan

#46. Definition of love differs for different humans. If I will talk about me then its something that makes you forget about everything else.

Dhanush

#47. Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical - feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be brought into alignment with others.

Sam Harris

#48. I understood the meaning of the word swoon - I had become the very definition.

Lauren Blakely

#49. The first definition of love is to be there. This is a practice. How can you love if you are not there? In order to love you have to be there, body and mind united. A true lover knows that the practice of mindfulness is the foundation of true love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#50. I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Spike Jonze