A Compilation of Great Quotes and Scriptures About Love

Love

Humility; Unity; Virtue; Righteousness

What is Love?

1 Corinthians 13:14-18/Moroni 7:45

Charity suffereth long,

and is kind.

Charity envieth not;

is not puffed up,

seeketh not her own (1 Corinthians 10:24- Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.), is not easily provoked,

thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity,

but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things,

believeth all things,

hopeth all things,

endureth all things.

Charity never faileth

Moroni 7:47

Charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.

C.S Lewis

"Being in love is a good thing but it is not the best thing. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last, but feelings come and go; and in fact whatever people say, the state called being in love usually does not last. If the old fairy tale ending they lived happily ever after is taken to mean, they felt for the next 50 years exactly as they felt they day before they were married, then it says what probably never was nor ever could be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even 5 years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, you friendships. But of course ceasing to be in love need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this 2nd sense. Love is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced in Christian marriages, by the grace which both partners ask and receive from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other, as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily if they allowed themselves be in love with someone else. Being in love first moved them to promise fidelity. This quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run. Being in love was the explosion that started it.

Love Supplants Knowledge

"People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care" - Author Unknown

Jonathan Mayhew

A right faith is an excellent and valuable thing. but it is advantageous no further than it ...leads us to live an holy and godly life

Terryl Givens

Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos.

James

" Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in theiraffliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."

Love Knows No Bounds

“A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”

Love=Sexual Purity

Matthew 5:28

Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

D&C 121:45-46

Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly, then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God... The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion

Alma 38:12

Bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love

Elder Holland

I ask you to be inconvenienced until you’ve earned the right and paid the divine price to know the body and the soul of the one you love

Love is Forgiving and Compassionate

Matthew 5:44

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you.

Joseph Smith

The nearer we get to our heavenly Father, the more we are disposed to look with compassion upon perishing souls; we feel that we want to take them upon our shoulders, and cast their sins behind our backs

Love is Kind

Matthew 7:1-3

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye

Joseph Smith

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Dale Carnegie

Each person has within them the power to increase the sum total of the world's happiness by giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”

Love=Unity

John 17:22

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one

Moses 7:18

And the Lord called his people ZION, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness, and there was no poor among them.

D&C 38:27

I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine

                                                                                                                                                              Love=Courage

D&C 121:43

Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost, and then showing afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved,, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy

Why Love?

Joseph Smith

“Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, ‘Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?’ I answer, It is because I possess the principle of love.”

D&C 18:10

“The worth of souls is great in the sight of God”

3 Nephi 17:17

“no one can conceive of the joy which filled our souls at the time we heard

him (Jesus) pray for us unto the Father”

How to Increase in Love

Alma 38:12

Bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love

Moroni 7:48

Pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ