And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Matthew 6:5, KJV
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:37-40, KJV
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you
Luke 6:27, KJV
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them
Luke 6:31-32, KJV
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luke 10:27, KJV
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, "The Son can do nothing of him-self, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quick-eneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will
John 5:19-21, KJV
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 12:25, KJV
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:12-13, KJV
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John 15:16-17, KJV
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 15:18-19, KJV
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and "have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John 16:27-28, KJV
And when they love a happy life, which is no other than joying in the truth, then also do they love the truth; which yet they would not love, were there not some notice of it in their memory.
Augustine, Confessions
Fear startles at things unusual and sudden, which endangers things beloved, and takes forethought for their safety; but to You what unusual or sudden, or who separates from You what You love?
Augustine, Confessions
Nor was it above my soul, as oil is above water, nor yet as heaven above earth: but above to my soul, because It made me; and I below It, because I was made by It. He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows eternity. Love knows it. O Truth Who are Eternal! and Love Who are Truth! and Eternity Who are Love!
Augustine, Confessions
O house most lightsome and delightsome! I have loved Your beauty, and the place of the habitation of the glory of my Lord, Your builder and possessor.
Augustine, Confessions
By love, which is purified from high and low! When the sun goes up, where stayeth night? When the joy of bounty came, where lagged affliction? I am silent. Speak thou, O soul of soul of soul, From desire of whose face every atom grew articulate.
Rumi
I bowed, I said: 'Bear that service to the sun Who maketh hard rocks gold by his burning.' I bared my breast, I showed it the wounds: 'Give news of me,' I said, 'to the Beloved whose drink is blood.'
Rumi
Love's way is all lowliness and drunkenness: For the torrent runs down: how should it run upward?
Rumi
See the body's house, and see my soul, This made drunken and that desolate by the cup of his love
Rumi
Thou wilt be as the bezel in the ring of lovers If thou art the bezel's thrall, O master. Even as this earth to the sky is thrall, Even as the body to the spirit is thrall.
Rumi
Whoever enters saying, "Tis I," I smite him on the brow; For this is the shrine of Love, O fool!
Rumi
Not at once our youth is faded, Not at once our joys forsake us, And happiness we unexpected Yet embrace shall more than once; But ye, impressions never-dying Of newly trepidating Love, And thou, first flame of Intoxication, Not flying back are coming ye!
Pushkin, First Love
Thou art king: live alone. On the free road Walk, whither draws thee thy spirit free: Ever the fruits of beloved thoughts ripening, Never reward for noble deeds demanding
Pushkin, To The Poet
Happy are the days of them that are infatuated by love for Him, whether they be sorrowed by separation from Him or made joyous by His presence
Saadi, Bustan
Like moths, they burn themselves in the fire of love. Their beloved is in their breasts, yet do they seek Him; though near a fountain, their lips are parched.
Saadi, Bustan
They that are captive in the coils of His love, seek not to escape; they suffer reproach, but are monarchs in the seclusion of their meditation, and their way is not known
Saadi, Bustan
When in the eyes of thy beloved riches count not, gold and dust are as one to thee.
Saadi, Bustan
Money makes no stay in the hand of a religious independent; neither does patience in a lover's heart, nor water in a sieve.
Saadi, Gulistan
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear. Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5
He that is truly dedicate to war Hath no self-love, nor he that loves himself Hath not essentially but by circumstance The name of valour
Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 2, Act 5, Scene 2
Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst shame,
Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act 5, Scene 2
The love of wicked men converts to fear
Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 5, Scene 1
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5
That we should things desire which do cost us The loss of our desire! that nought could buy Dear love but loss of dear love!
Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 5, Scene 4
For love can comment upon every woe.
Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
Love is a spirit all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.
Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
Love's fire heats water; water cools not love.
Shakespeare, Sonnet 154
Yet do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
Shakespeare, Sonnet 19
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, And moan th' expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of forebemoan'd moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored, and sorrows end.
Shakespeare, Sonnet 30