“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” – William Shakespeare

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller

“Faults are thick where love is thin”

What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. – Proverbs 19:22

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.” – Vance Havner

“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.” – 1 John 5:3

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” - C.S. Lewis

“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” – Romans 12:9

“‘God is Light.’ ‘God is Love.’ That which professes to be light yet lacks love, is not of God; while that which calls itself love, but is not according to light is equally not of God.” – J. Charleton Steen