“Why is lust such a deadly sin? Well, in addition to the completely Spirit-destroying impact it has upon our souls, I think it is a sin because it defiles the highest and holiest relationship God gives us in mortality—the love that a man and a woman have for each other and the desire that couple has to bring children into a family intended to be forever. Someone said once that true love must include the idea of permanence. True love endures. But lust changes as quickly as it can turn a pornographic page or glance at yet another potential object for gratification walking by, male or female. True love we are absolutely giddy about—as I am about Sister Holland; we shout it from the housetops. But lust is characterized by shame and stealth and is almost pathologically clandestine—the later and darker the hour the better, with a double-bolted door just in case. Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | Place No More For the Enemy of My Soul, April 2010 General Conference

Topics: Chastity, Love, Pornography

Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | Created for Greater Things

Topics: Family, Kindness, Love, Marriage, Short Quotes

“I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons.”

Christopher Poindexter

Topics: Love

“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”

Tony Robbins

Topics: Friendship, Love, Marriage

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

J.R.R. Tolkien | The Fellowship of the Ring

Topics: Grief, Love, Trials

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Philip Yancey | The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey

Topics: Atonement, Jesus Christ, Love, Nature of God

“Berdyaev wrote that ‘one must help others and do good works, not for saving one’s own soul, but for love, for the union of men, for the bringing of their souls together in the kingdom of God. Love for men is a value in itself, the quality of goodness is imminent in it.'”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | "The Christ Who Heals"

Topics: Love, Service

“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say. There are gifts to be given. There are deeds to be done. There are souls to be saved.”

Thomas S. Monson | The Gifts of Christmas, First Presidency Message, December 2003

Topics: Charity, Love, Service

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down; it is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

Thomas S. Monson | ‘Judge not,’ President Monson counsels women

Topics: Charity, Love, Missionary Work & Preparation, Patience

“Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations. Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect. It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.”

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf | The Love of God, Ensign, Nov 2009, 21–24

Topics: Charity, Love, Service

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and watch over them with tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow’r it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

Joseph Smith | Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, Page 62

Topics: Depression, Kindness, Love, Sin

“Perfect love is perfectly patient.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell | All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

Topics: Love, Patience

“The less love, the less service.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell | All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

Topics: Charity, Love, Service

“Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at large.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

Topics: Family, Love

“The completed beauty of Christ’s life is only the added beauty of little inconspicuous acts of beauty—talking with the woman at the well; showing the young ruler the stealthy ambition laid away in his heart that kept him out of the Kingdom of Heaven; … teaching a little knot of followers how to pray; kindling a fire and broiling fish that his disciples might have a breakfast waiting for them when they came ashore from a night of fishing, cold, tired, and discouraged. All of these things, you see, let us in so easily into the real quality and tone of [Christ’s] interests, so specific, so narrowed down, so enlisted in what is small, so engrossed with what is minute.”

Charles Henry Parkhurst | “Kindness and Love,” in Leaves of Gold

Topics: Jesus Christ, Love

I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr. | A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

Topics: Decisions, Love, Race & Racism

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

Mark Twain | Mark Twain's Notebook

Topics: Love, Marriage

Peacemakers are sometimes labeled naive or weak—from all sides. Yet, to be a peacemaker is not to be weak but to be strong in a way that the world may not understand.

Elder Gary E. Stevenson | Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Topics: Jesus Christ, Kindness, Love, Peace

“Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.”

Anonymous

Topics: Dating & Courtship, Love, Marriage

“When we love the Lord, obedience ceases to be a burden. Obedience becomes a delight. When we love the Lord, we seek less for things that benefit us and turn our hearts toward things that will bless and uplift others.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin | The Great Commandment

Topics: Love, Obedience

“What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | The God Who Weeps

Topics: Agency, Love

“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach trivial meaning to the word love…What we would here and now call our ‘happiness’ is not the end God chiefly has in view; but when we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.”

CS Lewis | The Problem of Pain

Topics: Happiness, Love, Plan of Salvation, Purpose

“The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets love and friendship, and engenders divine influence. Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.”

Joseph Fielding Smith | Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. (1939), 262.

Topics: Friendship, Gratitude & Thanksgiving, Love

“You ask, “What is the price of happiness?” First you must live the gospel of Jesus Christ in its purity and simplicity – not a half-hearted compliance, but hewing to the line. And this means an all-out devoted consecration to the great program of salvation and exaltation. An orthodox manner. The second, you must forget yourself and love your companion more than yourself. As you do these things, happiness can be yours in great and never-ending abundance.”

Spencer W. Kimball

Topics: Happiness, Love, Marriage, Service