Unconditional Quotations | Page 2

Our family adopted Paulie from a shelter as an 8-week-old puppy. We've had him for 11 years, and I think it was valuable for the kids to learn to be responsible for a pet. It's a wonderful thing for families - the unconditional love you get from a pet is something you carry with you for the rest of your life.

There are still people who insist that we have to preach on repentance. Well, I disagree! I think we should do it God’s way – preach the goodness of God and allow the goodness of God to lead people to repentance. Such repentance will be true repentance. It will not be motivated by the fear of judgment and indignation. It will be a genuine repentance that is motivated by His grace, unconditional love and compassion. After all, our ability to love God stems from our first tasting His love for us.

Football is unconditional love.

I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.

The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend the rest of your life trying to find that, but you can't because everyone's in it for their own thing. It's kind of cynical.

Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.

Exude unconditional confidence.

To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or negative energy. There is only compassion, learning, and unconditional love and forgiveness. Remind yourself and those around you of this fact. In the light of God, everything is healed and seen to be perfect.

Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it!

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of caring, of nurturing very often came from a woman - that got easily transferred to Mary.

You know how sometimes you're talking to people who love you and give you unconditional love, and you say, "But you know what? Let me back up. I forgot to say . . ."You can do that, right? You don't hesitate and say, "Oh my God! I forgot to say that!". You just speak! And you say it all, until you have nothing more to say. And that's your first draft. It's done.

Love for me is family, close friends - an unbreakable, unconditional bond.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right.

May you bring unconditional love and infinite peace.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

You must be willing to give total unconditional love to everyone, under all circumstances. That means being willing to be totally responsible for what you do and how you do it.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.

Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.

God's unconditional love is a very difficult concept for people to accept because, in the world, there's always payment for everything we receive. It's just how things work here. But God is not like people!

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles...only by a spiritual journey...by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home. The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.

Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.

We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn`t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love.

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.