It’s VALENTINE’S DAY!!!!
Ah! A day of love.
Of chocolate!
Of GIVEAWAYS!!!
Don’t forget every comment today will enter you for a couple of things – both of today’s giveaways and, if you Rafflecopter it, the weekly giveaway as well as the grand prizes of an Amazon card and KINDLE FIRE! See Sunday’s post for more details on that.
So today’s Book Bundles…
One bundle of paper books and one of e-books! Be sure to let us know which bundle (or both) you’d like to be entered for. See the bottom of the post for what’s in each one.
Ah! Love! There’s all sorts of places to get quotes about love. Here’s our favorites:
Bible verses are a great source for quotes on just about any topic!
Cathy Bryant
Lisa Jordan: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV
Hallee Bridgeman: We love because He first loved us.1 John 4:19
Literature and movies of all kinds offers insight as well.
Katherine Reay & Pepper Basham: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago… Captain Wentworth in Persuasion, by Jane Austen.
Krista Phillips & JoAnn Durgin: “You know you are in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss.
Kristen Ethridge: Piglet: “How do you spell love?”
Winnie-the-Pooh: “You don’t spell it. You feel it.” A. Milne
JoAnn Durgin: Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
Narelle Atkins: “Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” – Notting Hill
Lorraine Beatty: True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach
Elizabeth Maddrey
Lynette Sowell: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ~ C.S. Lewis
Poems and songs have often inspired!
Carla Laureano: My favorite love quote is not a quote but a poem: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116. If I had to choose a favorite section, it would be this: “Love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds,/ Or bends with the remover to remove:/ O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,/ That looks on tempests, and is never shaken.”
Stacy Monson
Merrilee Whren: “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” -Alfred Tennyson
Kimberly Rose Johnson: ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Valerie Comer: Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Laurie Tomlinson: “Love, it will not betray you / Dismay or enslave you / It will set you free” – Mumford & Sons
Beth K. Vogt
But some of us found our favorite quotes other places!
Staci Stalling: When you live a life of love, time becomes meaningless, limits are removed, and you just want to open your heart a little wider. –Staci Stallings
Deb Kastner: Love Courageously!
Annalisa Daughety: “Sometimes in the middle of an ordinary life, God gives us a fairy tale.” (said during my wedding ceremony)
AND “It’s never too late for happily ever after.”
Carol Moncado: We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other. – Phil Robertson, Duck Commander
Ebook bundle:
- Raspberries and Vinegar by Valerie Comer
- Faith Departed by Elizabeth Maddrey
- A Melody for James by Hallee Bridgeman
- One Choice by Ginger Solomon
- A Place to Call Home by Merrillee Whren
- Catching Serenity by JoAnn Durgin
Paper Book Bundle:
- Serenity to Accept by Elizabeth Maddrey
- Restoring His Heart by Lorraine Beatty
- Somebody Like You (Advance Reader Copy) by Beth K. Vogt
- Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by JoAnn Durgin
- Five Days in Skye by Carla Laureano
What is YOUR favorite quote about love?
When she's not writing about her imaginary friends, Carol Moncado is hanging out with her husband and four kids in the big yard of their southwest Missouri home, teaching American Government at a community college, reading, or watching NCIS. She's a member of ACFW and RWA, President and founding member for the MozArks ACFW group, and a category coordinator for ACFW's First Impressions.
Happy Valentine’s Day :) I loved reading everyone’s quotes. Good luck to all our readers in the drawings – the book prize packs look fabulous!
Oh oh!! I love quotes!! That one of Dr. Seuss is fantastic! Well, actually they’re all pretty wonderful. What a way to start Valentine’s Day! Chocolate through words ;-)
Great post for Valentine’s Day, Ladies! So many wonderful quotes…
My favorite love quote is the entire chapter of 1 Corinthians 13, but to narrow it down, I specifically LOVE verses 6 through 8a:
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”
Please enter me in both giveaways (eBooks and paperbacks). Thank you!
Blessings,
Andrea Cox
andrearenee2004@yahoo.com
LOVE all the quotes on LOVE.
My favorite LOVE verse is John 3:16, the very first verse I learned as a child. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His One and Only Son, that whoever will believe in Him will have eternal life.”
Happy Valentines Day!!! So many great ones shared. One of my all time favorite quotes is the one by C.S. Lewis ❤️
John 15:13 is my favorite It says a lot! Reminds me of what my hubby says about the years he served his country in Viet Nam in the late 60’s. I would like to be entered in e-book giveaway.Thanks and Happy Valentine’s Day!
This is so great . A lot of good books . Please enter me in the giveaway for the ebooks and paper books .
Wonderful Article Carol! I love the quotes on love (especially Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 since it was used in one of my favorite love stories Sense & Sensibility) & can’t wait to use a few of them myself!
A favorite of mine is from a song:
“It takes you in
Holds you close
Never let’s you go
Its a picture of the best things in life
That’s what love looks like”
-What Love Looks Like, Dara Maclean Petty
Another is from a book:
“You have bewitched me, body & soul, and I lo-I lo- I love you….and wish from this day forward never to be parted from you”
-Mr. Darcy, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Please enter me for the paper book bundle! Thank you, Happy Valentine’s Day, & God bless you and the family!! <3
My favorite quote on Love is I Corinthians 13. I also loved the quotes on this page. I would love to be entered in both the book and e book bundles. Happy Valentines.
Hi, everyone!!! Such great quotes, aren’t there?! So fun!
I have to admit that I love (haha!) 1 Corinthians 13. Our son read it at our daughter’s wedding. So beautiful!
Would love to be entered in the paper books giveaway! (I have a Nook, but have to use Kindle for PC–until I can get an actual Kindle, as it is difficult to read a book on the laptop.)
Happy Valentine’s Day! And blessings. <3
Melanie
mpike@rochester.rr.com
I would say John 15. where it say not greater love then a man lay down his life for another.
Love to win. I loved all the quotes about love.
Blessings
Diana
This is such fun. So many great quotes…And so many comments — I love it when you stumble upon a place where folks stop, stay and chat awhile. So thrilled this is becoming such a place. Happy Valentine’s Day, ALL!
Ahhh, love! Love the quotes, and the giveaways! I’d like to share a quote from a song (“To The One”) I wrote for my sons to keep in mind as they are searching for that special someone to share their life with; for my husband; and ultimately to Jesus thanking Him for my spouse: “Moving slowly, listening closely, is this the one for me? Emotions at new heights, everything feels right, my heart’s awakening. To the one who came into my world, and fits perfectly, and I’m thankful that I waited for the right one for me.” – Sally Meadows. Please enter me into the draw for the book package. Thanks!
Yay! Ever since Carol asked us to send in quotes I’ve been looking forward to seeing what others sent in. :)
Good luck to everyone entering in the giveaways!
I love the Nottinghill quote, but even more I like: You had me at hello. I guess that one means so much because that’s actually how I felt about my husband. Our anniversary is Monday (17), we have been married for 35 years. Love is amazing.
Such fabulous quotes! But I have to admit – I loved the sweetness of Piglet and Pooh. :) Great way to pull all this love together, Carol.
Loved the post today with all the quotes. I am a sucker for Winnie-the-Pooh and his sentiment on love, “You don’t spell it. You feel it.”
What a wonderful collection of quotes!! I especially love, “True love stories never have endings.” My husband and I celebrate our love story today with our 13th wedding anniversary. I would love to be entered in both giveaways. Thanks so much! Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
texaggs2000 at gmail dot com
I love quotes and try to use them often lol, thanks for the giveaway
Shirley B. jcisforme@aol.com