Quotes on Love

Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating, but by Love. This is an eternal Truth.
 -  Buddha, The Dhammapada, Sutra 1:5

If a religion is true:
It will care less for dogma and doctrine than it will for Love;
It will care less for rules and customs than it will for compassion;
It will care less for the gods we make than for the people we are.
 -  Cliff Reed

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
 -  Confucius

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us Love one another.
 -  Jonathan Swift

When an alien resides with you in your land, do not molest him. You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; have the same Love for him as for yourself.
 -  God, Leviticus 19:34

He who Loves another, Loves the best in himself.
He who hates another, Loves the worst in himself.
 -  Elbert Hubbard

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm;
For stern as death is Love,
Relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire.
Deep waters cannot quench Love, nor floods sweep it away,
Were one to offer all he owns to purchase Love, he would be roundly mocked.
 -  King Solomon, Song of Songs 8:6

But to those who hear I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you… Do to others as you would have them do to you. For if you Love those who Love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners Love those who Love them.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of Luke 6:27

Overcome anger by Love,
Overcome evil by good,
Overcome the miser by giving,
Overcome the liar with Truth.
 -  Buddha, The Dhammapada, Sutra 17:3

Give me Love
Give me Love
Give me peace on earth.
Give me Light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth.
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load.
Trying to, touch and reach you with heart and soul.
 -  George Harrison

The first is this: Hear O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!
You shall Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
The second is this: You shall Love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of Mark 12:29

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
 -  Samuel Johnson

True Love's the gift which God has given,
To man alone beneath the heaven.
 -  Sir Walter Scott

Every scandal, hatred, cruelty, and everything unbecoming springs from this root of selfish Love.
It has poisoned the whole world and sickened the mystic body of holy Church and the universal body of Christianity.
For all virtues are built on charity for your neighbors. So I have told you and such is the Truth.
 -  Saint Catherine of Sienna

Pillowed upon my fair Love's ripening breast
To feel forever its soft fall and swell,
Awake forever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever - or else swoon to death.
 -  John Keats

O mankind! We created you from a single pair of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other, not that ye may despise each other.
 -  God, The Holy Quran, Sura XLIX, Verse 13