“Love makes us who we are, and who we can become.” ~ Thomas Lewis, M.D., Researcher & Author

3. “The deepest urge in every human heart is to be in relationship with someone who absolutely delights in us.” ~ Larry Crabb, Psychologist

4. “Love makes us who we are, and who we can become.” ~ Thomas Lewis, M.D., Researcher & Author

5. “In love the soul acts in accordance with its nature, because it is created to live in connection with other souls.” ~ Johannes Pedersen, Theologian

6. “Much or even most of what has been popularly written about love is nonsense.” ~ Douglas N. Morgan, Philosopher

7. “Love is such a tissue of paradoxes, and exists in such an endless variety of forms and shades, that you may say almost anything about it that you please and it is likely to be correct.” ~ Finck, 1891

8. “Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.” ~ Bell Hooks, Poet & Author

9. “Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.” ~ M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist

10. “Love doesn’t really make the world go round. It just makes people dizzy so it looks like it.” ~ Martha Lupton

11. “Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.” ~ Diane Ackerman, Historian

12. “Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.” ~ C. S. Lewis, Philosopher

13. “Love is as love does.” ~ Eric Fromm, Psychiatrist

14. “The myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. As a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.” ~ M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist

15. “Since love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally. It is like knowledge. The wise man can teach all he knows and when he’s through he’ll still know all that he has taught.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

16. “The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.” ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

17. “For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

18. “Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love. … To know love we have to tell the truth to ourselves and others.” ~ Bell Hooks, Author

19. “Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” ~ Eric Fromm, Psychologist

20. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned. ~ Song of Songs 8:7 (NRSV)

21. “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us.” ~ 1 John 4:12 (TNIV)

22. Aheb (Heb.) = Love as attraction. A wide catch-all love term, used to refer to all kinds of attraction and desire, usually (but not necessarily) sexual.

23. Hessed (Heb.) = Love as loyalty to a person and their good; Steadfast commitment and compassion; Faithful devotion.

24. “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love (hesed) for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you. ~ Isaiah 54:10 (NIV)

25. I have loved (aheb)you with an everlasting love (aheb); therefore I have continued my faithfulness (hesed)to you. ~ Jeremiah 31:3 (NASB)

26. Storge (Gk.) = a natural, appropriate, unforced attachment that should bind members of a family; the bond between parents and children; sometimes used of king and subjects or dogs and their masters.

27. For the Father Himself loves (phileo) you, because you have loved (phileo) Me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father. ~ John 16:27 (NASB)

28. Phileo (Gk.) = caring and compassionate affection; being fond of, as in a friendship.

29. For the Father Himself loves (phileo) you, because you have loved (phileo) Me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father. ~ John 16:27 (NASB)

30. Eros (Gk.) = desire; yearning; longing; craving; the strong desire to possess another person (or thing), to fuse with them.

31. Agape (Gk.) = Unconditional love. Offered because of the choice of the giver, not because of the attraction of the receiver. Certainly not devoid of feeling, just not dependant on or led by emotion.

32. Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. ~ Luke 11:43 (TNIV)

33. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. ~ John 3:19 (NRSV)

34. “Eros is the kind of love that is directed at someone the beholder sees as beautiful. When a young man or a young woman falls in love, it is always because the beloved is seen as attractive.” ~ Leon Morris, Theologian

35. “Eros ever dwells with want.” ~ Plato, Symposium

37. He has showed you, O people, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love (ahab) mercy (hesed) and to walk humbly with your God. ~ Micah 6:8 (NIVi)

38. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” ~ Romans 5:8 (TNIV)

39. “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” ~ John 15:13 (TNIV)