How Real Love Looks: 20 Amazing Quotes

Ah, love is in the air. Yes, it’s love month. And a time we celebrate love. But it’s important to learn how real love looks.

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. 

The One who calls us Beloved loves us in truth and wants us to do the same in our relationships.

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. 

God calls us beloved. So it's important to know how real love looks, what true love does, and why authentic love matters.  Share on X

Words to Remind us How Real Love Looks

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.” ― Saint Francis de Sales

12.) “God’s love for us grants us the capacity to love others.” ― Kelly Minter

“God’s love for us grants us the capacity to love others.” ― Kelly Minter Share on X

God’s Word for How Love Looks

13.) “The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love, he will exult over you with loud singing.” ― Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV)

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 (ESV)

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 (ESV)

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 (ESV)

17.) “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” ― 1 Peter 4:8 (ESV)

18.) “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” ― John 15:12 (ESV)

19.) “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” ― 1 John 4:11 (ESV)

20.) “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” ― 1 Corinthians 13:13 (ESV)

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” ― 1 Corinthians 13:13 (ESV) Share on X

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Last week’s post, God’s Not Finished With Me.

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