Love

LDS Quotes on Love

Thomas S. Monson

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”

Thomas S. Monson  |  "Finding Joy in the Journey," Conference October 2008

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“True love is a process. True love requires personal action.”

Marvin J. Ashton  |  Love Takes Time

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“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

Abraham Lincoln

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“If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. you shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”

F. Burton Howard

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“We don’t become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don’t become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love.”

David Brooks  |  The Road to Character

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“Love is the great conqueror of lust.”

CS Lewis  |  Mere Christianity

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“Perhaps the world little notes nor long remembers individual acts of kindness – but people do.”

Herm Albright

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“The point of the law is love. And while obedience is generally better than disobedience, obedience in itself cannot fulfill the law. Only love can fulfill the law. However, love is a curious end for a law. Normally, the point of a law is to compel obedience, not love. As a result, making love the point of the law introduces a kind of know– a kind of torsion or structural catch 22– into the heart of the law itself because love if compelled, is no longer love. Love that is not freely given is not love. Love, as the end of the law, divides the law against itself. Love hamstrings the law in relation to its own assigned end because the law, working to compel obedience, cannot, in this instance, be fulfilled by way of obedience. It can instead, only be fulfilled by love that the law cannot– and must not– compel. The law must compromise its own integrity in order to achieve its assigned end.”

Adam S. Miller  |  Future Mormon

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“Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.”

Aristotle

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“Reaching out to rescue one another under ANY condition is an eternal measure of love.”

Elder Ronald A. Rasband

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