Ah, love is in the air. Yes, it’s love month. And a time we celebrate memorable love. But, most of us wish to boost the love in our lives.
Because God never intended love to fall flat or feel thin.
Maybe we desire to boost our love for a spouse.
Perhaps, love seems rushed or less-than in some of our closest relationships.
Or, all of us, married and single, need a boost in the truth about love.
So, consider how we boost love for soul-mates, family, friends, and the One who calls us Beloved. God.
Love boosted. Love supercharged. And love supersized.
Therefore, I complied this list of memorable and amazing love-quotes. Words reminding our heart: how real love looks, what true love does, and why authentic love matters.
And words in an effort to boost our affections where we need it the most.
Words to Boost Our Love
1.) “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2.) “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” ― C. S. Lewis
3.) “Vows give love a chance and create stability so the feelings of love, always very fitful and fragile, can grow strong and deep over time.” ― Timothy Keller
4.) “Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.” ― Timothy Keller
5.) “Love doesn’t erase the past, but it makes the future different.” ― Gary Chapman
6.) “Love is a choice you make everyday.” ― Gary Chapman
7.) “True love cannot begin until the ‘in love’ experience has run its course.” ― Gary Chapman
8.) “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” ― Mother Teresa
9.) “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” ― Amy Carmichael
10.) “He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.” ― Augustine
11.) “The measure of love is to love without measure.” ― Augustine
12.) “God’s love for us grants us the capacity to love others.” ― Kelly Minter
God’s Word to Boost Our Love
13.) “For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.” ― Zephaniah 3:17 NLT
14.) “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” ― Romans 8:38-39
15.) “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” ― 1 John 4:16
16.) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” ― John 3:16
17.) “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” ― 1 Peter 4:8
18.) “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” ― John 15:12
19.) “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” ― 1 John 4:11
20.) “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” ― John 15:13
*All Scripture ESV unless noted.
*Read my FGGAM post, God Loves Us: The Bible Tells Us So
*Featured Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash