Agape Love Quotes

“Shine your soul with the same
egoless humility as the rainbow
and no matter where you go
in this world or the next,
love will find you, attend you, and bless you.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

“Each new year is another chance to get love right.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“Agape love is strengthened by the person who expresses it - not by the person who receives it. In fact, the person who receives agape love does not have to show any appreciation at all.”
― Brian Apollo, How to Value Your Daughters

“I live by the maxim, love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That how you change someone’s life forever.”
― Mark Batterson, If: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities

“Ben, looking deep into his soulful, kind eyes. “Should we try it?” Ben took a deep breath and closed his eyes. “I can’t figure out any way to get closer to you, and I feel it. Like I want to get closer. It’s not sex I want, it’s just …”
― Bill Konigsberg

“Out of that union [Kingdom of God reign] we discover love as a life power that has the marvelous, many-sided expression spelled out by Paul in 1 Corinthians 13. But this beautiful statement by Paul is commonly misunderstood in exactly the same legalistic way as is Jesus' Discourse on the Hill. Love, Paul there tells us, is patient, kind, free of jealousy and arrogance, is not rude or self-seeking, is not easily angered and keeps no record of wrongs, takes no joy in things that are wrong but instead in what is true. It always protects, always accepts, always hopes, and endures everything. And it never quits (1 Cor. 13:4–8). People usually read this, and are taught to read it, as telling them to be patient, kind, free of jealousy, and so on—just as they read Jesus' Discourse as telling them to not call others fools, not look on a woman to lust, not swear, to go the second mile, and so forth. But Paul is plainly saying—look at his words—that it is love that does these things, not us, and that what we are to do is to “pursue love” (1 Cor. 14:1). As we “catch” love, we then find that these things are after all actually being done by us. These things, these godly actions and behaviors, are the result of dwelling in love. We have become the kind of person who is patient, kind, free of jealousy, and so on. Paul's message is exactly the same as Jesus' message. And no wonder, for as Paul was always the first to say, he learned what he taught from Jesus (Gal. 1:12).”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

“HE remembered looking "agape" in his encyclopedia volume after he read Dr. King's speech in the DEFENDER. The newspaper ran the address in full after the reverend's appearance at Cornell College. If Elwood had come across the word before, through all those years of skipping around the book, it hadn't stuck in his head. King described "agape" as a divine love operating in the heart of man. A selfless love, an incandescent love, the highest there is. He called upon his Negro audience to cultivate that pure love for their oppressors, that it might carry them to the other side of the struggle.

Elwood tried to get his head around it, now that it was no longer the abstraction floating in his head last spring. It was real now.

"Throw us in jail and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities after midnight hours, and drag us out onto some wayside road, and beat us and leave us half-dead, and we will still love you. But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom.

The capacity to suffer. Elwood--all the Nickel boys--existed in the capacity. Breathed in it, ate in it, dreamed in it. That was their lives now. Otherwise they would have perished. The beatings, the rapes, the unrelenting winnowing of themselves. They endured. But to love those who destroyed them? To make that leap? "We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you."

Elwood shook his head. What a thing to ask. What an impossible thing.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Remember always that the goal of awakening, of self-awareness, of living in higher consciousness is always about the very same thing that Christ brought into the world which is unconditional, agape love. (p. 92)”
― Theodore J. Nottingham, Doorway to Spiritual Awakening: Becoming Partakers of the Divine

“What is between my soul and you is between us,
What is between my heart and you is between us,
What is between said and understood is between me and you is between us,
What is between is one among two among two is one is between us,
What is between silence is loud and between loud is silent is between us,
What is between is the law of one and one of the law is love between us,
What is between us is love and what is love is in between is between us.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“A lover turns blind to everything and everyone except the beloved,
A lover gets dissolved contemplating beloved in the eyes, in the heart, and in the thoughts, losing his own identity.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa na sehemu ya upendo wa AGAPE. Alijitahidi kuwapenda wengine kuliko yeye na familia yake.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; ”
― Solomon

“Maybe he [Plato] really couldn't imagine agape between men and women, and he thought agape between men wouldn't be affected by them going off to women at the festivals.
Sokrates was married, and Aristotle, but never Plato.”
― Jo Walton, The Just City

“Your love might not equate the love of God but it can reachout to the boundaries of Heaven when your neighbour feels it”
― ikechukwu Izuakor , Great Reflections on Success

“A world where there is more love than not is a better world.”
― Melanie D. West, Love Check: How Do You Measure Up?

“Why can't you be my forever thought,
Why can't you be my forever house,
Why can't you be my forever sight,
Why can't you be my forever sky,
Why can't you be my forever light,
Why can't you be my forever reason,
Why can't you be my forever,
Why can't you be my,
Why can't you be,
Why can't you,
Why can't,
Why.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Love isn't a proclamation but rather experience, experiencing beloved in everything you see, hear, & speak.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“We see the best demonstration of love in the history on the cross at the Calvary. Jesus demonstrated agape love by dying on the cross for us. He didn’t feel like dying that painful death, but he chose to die in love.”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“The world is starving for a yearning love, a love that remembers instead of forsakes. A love that isn't tied to our loveliness. A love that gets down underneath our messiness. A love that is bigger than the enveloping darkness we might be walking through even today. A love of which even the very best human romance is the faintest of whispers.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

“Kindness is the only love I know.
Kindness is the only love there is.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“They say "You don't Fear God!"
We say "We Love God!”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“The one who has made our spiritual heart alive and awakened our conscience is YOU,
From the day of creation of the souls those who were sleeping who have awakened them is YOU!”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“For the patients of love,
love is the remedy,
it enters through the eyes,
from the eyes enters the heart,
and from the heart enters the soul,
no other remedy works for the seeker of love, no doctor can identify the cause and cure.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“A world where there is more love than not is a better world.”
― Melanie West