On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you’ve done… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely… — Obert C. Tanner Copy Share Image
“I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.” — Luna McNamara Copy Share Image
“Self-love is great, but the greatest of all is the love that stretches beyond the self.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“Agape is total love. It is the love that consumes the person who experiences it. Whoever knows and experiences agape learns that… — Paolo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Agape has suffered almost irreparable damage by translating it “love,” without the catharsis of careful scholarship.” — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“[Agape love is] a profound concern for the welfare of another without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by… — Edward Nason West Copy Share Image
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… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“They'll say you are bad or perhaps you are mad or at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bare… — David Rovics Copy Share Image
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about Ben. He could get away with saying shit like that. I totally couldn’t. I wasn’t big or… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bono has commented often that U2 did everything the wrong way around. Other bands started singing about girls and then found the… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
“We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the… — Guy T. Simpson Jr Copy Share Image
“How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can… — John David Geib Copy Share Image
Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love.… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Holistic, unconditional love, agape, is the unity in which duality disappears. It is as if a certain internal boundary has vanished. With… — Kabir Edmund Helminski Copy Share Image
“Braćo, ne bojte se grehova ljudskih, volite čoveka i u grehu njegovom, jer kad ko voli čoveka grešnog, to je već slika… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Eros remains largely egocentric...it is a longing for union with an object which will fulfil the promise of self-completion…[Agape] is theocentric and… — Andrew Vincent Copy Share Image
To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both… — Marshall Gregory Copy Share Image
![“[Agape love is] a profound concern for the welfare of another without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.” quote by Edward Nason West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68a/edward-nason-west-115715_agape-love_agape-love-is-a-profound-concern-for-the_2552016.jpg)
![“[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved…” quote by John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/734/john-chrysostom-18823_agape_on-what-young-husbands-should-say-to-the_2761509.jpg)
![“There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him, but in order to love the enemy you must not do it... The Greek language has another word [for love]. It calls it agape. Agape is more than romantic love. Agape is more than friendship. Agape…” quote by Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2eb/martin-luther-king-jr-127_agape_there-may-come-a-time-when-it-will-be-po_2953320.jpg)
![“Eros remains largely egocentric...it is a longing for union with an object which will fulfil the promise of self-completion…[Agape] is theocentric and selfless. It can flow through us, but it is not 'ours.' We only love, according to 1 John 4.19 'because he first loved us.” quote by Andrew Vincent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb8/andrew-vincent-194572_agape_eros-remains-largely-egocentric-it-is-a_2773834.jpg)
