Top 78 What Love Requires Quotes
#1. It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.
Mairead Corrigan
#2. We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.
Stanley Hauerwas
#3. A world where falling in love requires marrying is a world where novels require reading from beginning to end.
Soseki Natsume
#4. If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
Peter Kreeft
#5. Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.
Jim George
#6. It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#7. The art of love is like your painting, it requires technique, patience, and above all, practice by the couple. It requires boldness, the courage to go beyond what people conventionally call making love.
Paulo Coelho
#8. Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
Edward Abbey
#9. Much better stay in company!
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on - in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.
Philip Larkin
#10. The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.
Henry B. Eyring
#11. The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just looking and recording. It's messy and time consuming and people might fall in love and get hurt.
Laurel Nakadate
#12. Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.
Richard Bach
#13. I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
Jane Green
#14. Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
Ron Rash
#15. Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
#16. You can't treat a car like a human being. A car requires love.
Walter Rohrl
#17. I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.
Charlotte Riley
#18. Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
Leo Buscaglia
#19. So get on with life, with love, with service - fully realizing that God already has the perfect service he requires of us in his Son and now our neighbor needs our imperfect help.
Michael S. Horton
#20. It's my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job ... I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It's more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s - t.
Kate Winslet
#21. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.
Billy Zane
#22. I just learnt that I don't have to love it to know what I'm doing. It requires practice not passion.
O.E. Boroni
#23. Maybe love doesn't require falling after all. Maybe it only requires that you choose to be in it. I wasn't sure what was going to happen with us or how much time we had left, but I wasn't going to waste a second of it.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#24. Mankind, He has told you what is good u and what it is the Lord requires of you: v to act justly, w to love faithfulness, x and to walk humbly with your God. y
Anonymous
#25. If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.
Kurt Vonnegut
#26. What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
Charles Baudelaire
#27. Work is love made visible. And what is it to work with love? the poet Khalil Gibran wrote. In the hospital, working with love sometimes requires putting people in danger.
Theresa Brown
#28. What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.
Natasha Calis
#29. The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.
Bryant McGill
#30. What are you doing right now that requires faith?
Francis Chan
#31. I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.
Tammara Webber
#33. You have what she needs," he said again. "And you're capable of giving her more than she'd ever bargained for because you love her. Wether she wants it or not, it's your gift to her. True love requires no reciprocation. True love is unconditional.
Aja James
#34. There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.
Tom Hanks
#35. What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.
Daisaku Ikeda
#36. Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.
David B. Haight
#37. Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
Andre Tchelistcheff
#38. Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.
Julian Short
#39. Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.
Darlene Zschech
#40. I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.
Katherine Applegate
#41. I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
Rachel Sklar
#42. It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
L. Ron Hubbard
#43. Love isn't rest. Love requires you, from time to time, to rip up your soul and replant it. To dare your lover to do the same. To muster sympathy where it seemed impossible. To be, perpetually, two kids joining hands, drawing breath, and deep diving.
Rachel Kadish
#44. 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
#45. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
Francis Chan
#46. The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
#47. Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
Robert Breault
#48. ...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.
Hannah Mary Rothschild
#49. Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.
Gary Chapman
#50. Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. Making love requires no thought. You move as the fronds of a palm tree move in the breeze. It is all instinct. All wonder. When you love someone, your lips are incomplete until they are oiled by a kiss. You can say 'I love you' a thousand ways but you can say it better with silence and a kiss.
Chloe Thurlow
#52. The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother's in love. I also find this kind of gross.
Cynthia Hand
#53. The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
Thomas Aquinas
#54. A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.
Dave Willis
#55. You never know who's waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might be. But let me just say, a healthy relationship requires SACRIFICE and DEDICATION.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#56. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.
J.R. Ortiz
#57. Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.
Isaac Asimov
#58. The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
Samuel Johnson
#59. Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun...
Virginia Alison
#60. Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow
Dawna Markova
#61. Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#62. No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.
L. M. Boyd
#63. This being requires no proof of love. They are bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, and for them my everlasting Love and affection will never be diminished. They cannot drift into unworthiness.
William Paul Young
#64. it requires deep love to coax effective treatment from our mental healthcare system for a partner who is convinced that nothing can improve or, worse, that nothing is wrong, when it obviously is.
Gina Pera
#65. Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.
Dan B. Allender
#67. We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
Raquel Welch
#68. What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.
Matthew Henry
#69. Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy ...
Leo Buscaglia
#70. You cannot write the pages you love without writing the pages you hate. Nothing that you write is pointless, useless, or unnecessary. The product requires the process. The good days may be more enjoyable, but the tough ones are the ones they're built upon.
Robin Black
#71. A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
Jane Smiley
#72. A successful relationship requires 3 factors - Love, tolerance and contentment.
Deepika Muthusamy
#73. The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.
Andrew Solomon
#75. Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
Mignon McLaughlin
#76. What kind of love is it that requires an angel and only an angel for its commitment?
Toni Morrison
#77. I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
Mother Teresa
#78. A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection!
Mehek Bassi
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