“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

Topics: Charity, Love, Service

“My children and I were at her bedside as she slipped peacefully into eternity. As I held her hand and saw mortal life drain from her fingers, I confess I was overcome. Before I married her, she had been the girl of my dreams, to use the words of a song then popular. She was my dear companion for more than two-thirds of a century, my equal before the Lord, really my superior. And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | The Women in Our Lives

Topics: Death, Grief, Love, Physical

“Satan, in fact, is the Hebrew word for accuser. Accusatory judgment is Satan’s role, not Christ’s. We do not know the inmost depths of the human heart; it is only revealed by love. But those who condemn have generally little love, and therefore the mystery of the heart which they judge is closed to them. It is impossible to know another completely and not love that person deeply.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | "The Christ Who Heals"

Topics: Final Judgement, Love, Satan, Shame

“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

Topics: Family, Love, Purity

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

Aristotle

Topics: Fear, Love, Obedience

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

Marvin J. Ashton | Love Takes Time

Topics: Dating & Courtship, Love, Marriage

“For me, one of the greatest miracles of the Christmas story is the love which it reflects. First is the love which our Father in Heaven has for his children: ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’ There is the love which the Savior has for each of us. ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ The love of God has been described as ‘the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love’ ‘and the most joyous to the soul.’ This spirit of love and concern seems to be especially strong during the Christmas season.”

Bonnie L. Oscarson | "Christmas is Christlike Love"

Topics: Christmas, Jesus Christ, Love

“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

Topics: Education, Knowledge, Love

“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

Topics: Love, Obedience

“Love is the great conqueror of lust.”

CS Lewis | Mere Christianity

Topics: Love, Lust, Pornography

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

Herm Albright

Topics: Charity, Love

“During the time of courtship, please be emotionally honest in the expression of affection. Sometimes you are not as careful as you might be about when, how, and to whom you express your feelings of affection. You must realize that the desire to express affection can be motivated by other things than true love.”

Bruce C. Hafen | “The Gospel and Romantic Love,” Ensign, Oct. 1982, 67.

Topics: Dating & Courtship, Love, Sex

“When any of you—men or women—are given entrance to the heart of a trusting young friend, you stand on holy ground. In such a place you must be honest with yourself—and with your friend—about love and the expression of its symbols.”

Bruce C. Hafen | “The Gospel and Romantic Love,” Ensign, Oct. 1982, 67.

Topics: Dating & Courtship, Friendship, Love, Sex

Love is a fundamentally creative act. Love creates and recreates lives and worlds. Love depends on learning how to bend our ordinary lives, like a poet bends and saves ordinary words into creative and morally responsive shapes. In this sense, love is an ethical practice with a deeply aesthetic dimension. Love doesn’t just require justice and mercy, it requires beauty and creativity.

Adam S. Miller | Moral Creativity

Topics: Love

“Above all the attributes of godliness and perfection, charity is the one most devoutly to be desired. Charity is more than love, far more; it is everlasting love, perfect love, the pure love of Christ which endureth forever. It is love so centered in righteousness that the possessor has no aim or desire except for the eternal welfare of his own soul and for the souls of those around him.”

Bruce R. McConkie | Mormon Doctrine, p. 121

Topics: Charity, Love, Perfection

“If you are a nice person–if virtue comes easily to you–beware! Much is expected from those to whom much is given. If you mistake for your own merits what are really God’s gifts to you through nature, and if you are contented with simply being nice, you are still a rebel: and all those gifts will only make your fall more terrible, your corruption more complicated, your bad example more disastrous.”

CS Lewis | Mere Christianity

Topics: Kindness, Love, Potential, Weaknesses

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and is within the reach of every hand.”

Mother Teresa

Topics: Love

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

Elder Ronald A. Rasband

Topics: Love, Service

“Indeed, one of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother. A man who holds the priesthood regards the family as ordained of God. Your leadership of the family is your most important and sacred responsibility. The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and, as such, transcends every other interest in life.”

Howard W. Hunter

Topics: Fathers & Fatherhood, Love, Marriage, Mothers & Motherhood

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

George Sand

Topics: Happiness, Love

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”

Euripides

Topics: Adversity, Friendship, Love

“If our testimonies are strong on this point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questions. We won’t ask, ‘Why did this happen?’ or ‘Why doesn’t God care about me?’ Instead, our questions will become, ‘What can I learn from this experience?’ or ‘How does the Lord want me to handle this?”

John Bytheway | When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything

Topics: Attitude, Love, Testimony

“We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We need to extend the hand of friendship and resist the hand of retribution. In short, we need to love one another with the pure love of Christ, with genuine charity and compassion and, if necessary, shared suffering, for that is the way God loves us.”

Howard W. Hunter | A More Excellent Way, Conference April 1992

Topics: Charity, Forgiveness, Love

“God does not look on the outward appearance. I believe that he doesn’t care one bit if we live in a castle or a cottage, if we are handsome or homely, if we are famous or forgotten. Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God’s love encompasses us completely.”

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Topics: Love, Nature of God