The love season is here! Can you feel it? February is love month, and you can see the changes in the people around you.
I often feel like it’s the mating season in the human kingdom. Though it’s exciting for most, it can be a reminder of unpleasant feelings of loneliness and lack of romantic love for others.
For this reason, I wanted to share with you 14 quotes and 14 scriptures to remind you of how loved you are.
You Are Loved More Than You Know
Love comes in many forms. Did you know there are types of love? Here’s an example of different types below:
- Philia — Affectionate Love without romantic attraction occurs between friends or family members.
- Pragma — Enduring Love in the long-term/ committed marriage.
- Storge — Familiar Love found in the parent-child relationship.
- Eros — Romantic Love with infatuation and physical pleasure (Valentine’s Day)
- Ludus — Playful Love includes flirting.
- Mania — Obsessive Love- obsessive and survival type ( I don’t want that!)
- Philautia — Self Love includes respecting, accepting, and appreciating yourself.
- Agape — Selfless Love with God’s unconditional love.
The main types of love in the Bible are only Philia, Storge, Eros, and Agape. Agape is the highest form of it.
But when February comes around, we forget all the other love types we receive on a regular basis for one day of romantic sweetheart love, Eros on Valentine’s Day.
Why are we so prone to forget that we’ve been loved before this day came?
Maybe it’s the mushy commercials or overflow of social media posts of couples professing their love. In the past, I did too forget how loved I was. However, I learned posting does not represent the relationship’s health, and those commercials are a ploy to guilt you, causing men to spend money to show their love and women to expect gifts.
Even though, gifts are the least preferred love language of the five for men and women. Quality time and physical touch is the highest preferred.
But I digress…
What does being Loved mean?
Being means that there are other people and/or animals who have deep affection for you. In short, you are cherished by those individuals, pets, God, and even yourself.
How Do You Know If You Are Loved Truly?
My biggest advice incluedes but not limited to:
- Read the love letter God sent to you through the bible. Get in the Word! He already told us how much he loves us, including you.
- Reflect on the times you showed up for yourself, that’s love. Maybe the times your family and friends considered you, encouraged you, and helped you out of love.
- Ask yourself why yo,u may or may not feel loved. Is there another emotion or frustration keeping you from seeing how loved you are? Is it embarassment, fear of humilitation, hurt, unforgiveness, and anger that’s keeping you from receiving the love in front of you?
Whatever it is that may be holding you back from accepting the love that is already in your life. I wand to remind you that you are loved in so many ways. You are chosen, appreciated, respected, and your presence mean the world to those who had the opportunity to cross your path.
Furthermore, God has put it on my heart to share each of these encouragements with you to remind you of how loved you are.
Even if you are getting gifts or spending the night alone, one day does not define your love-ability. Remember, God loves you 24/7, 365 days, and has placed unique individuals in your life to remind you, like me!
14 Scriptures On God’s Love For You
But Christ died for us while we were still sinners, and by this God showed how much he loves us. Romans 5:8
True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God. He sent his Son as the way to take away our sins. 1 John 4:10
Yes, I am sure that nothing can separate us from God’s love—not death, life, angels, or ruling spirits. I am sure that nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us or nothing below us—nothing in the whole created world—will ever be able to separate us from the love God has shown us in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38
The whole law is made complete in this one command: “Love your neighbor the same as you love yourself.” Galatian 5:14
Women of Jerusalem, promise me by the gazelles and wild deer, don’t awaken love, don’t arouse love, until I am ready. Songs of Songs 2:7
The Father himself loves you because you have loved me. And he loves you because you have believed that I came from God. John 16:27
God knows that I want very much to see you. I love all of you with the love of Christ Jesus. Phillipians 1:8
LET GOD’S LOVE MAKE YOU WHOLE.
Israel, say it: “His faithful love will last forever!” Psalm 118:2
Mercy, peace, and love be yours more and more. Jude 1:2
God has chosen you and made you his holy people. He loves you. So your new life should be like this: Show mercy to others. Be kind, humble, gentle, and patient. Colassians 3:12
The Father has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are his children. But the people in the world don’t understand that we are God’s children, because they have not known him. 1 Johh 3:1
Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear. It is his punishment that makes a person fear. So his love is not made perfect in the one who has fear. 1 John 4:18 (Are you living like you’re loved or in fear?)
And this hope will never disappoint us. We know this because God has poured out his love to fill our hearts through the Holy Spirit he gave us. Romans 5:5
Whoever is wise will remember these things and begin to understand the Lord’s faithful love. Psalms 107:43
GOD’S LOVE FOR YOU IS SO REAL!
14 Quotes On Being Loved
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Be loved for who you are, for everything that constitutes you. For your core beliefs, your strengths and weaknesses, your admirable traits and troublesome baggage. Be loved for you, because anything less is not love at all.
The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.
Women are made to be loved, not understood. Oscar Wild
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves say rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us. Timothy Keller
REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED, MY DEAR.
To love and be loved demands your best. John A. Andrews
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Morrie SchwartzOnce someone loves you that much, loves you more than you deserve, you can’t go back to being loved the normal way. Tiffany Reisz
You are loved no matter how you feel. Unknown
Loving others brings love back to you. Catherine Pulsifer
You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. Bob Marley
Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
I LOVE YOU WITH THE LOVE OF GOD!
All in all,
I pray these quotes and scriptures will give you the comfort you need to get through another Valentine’s day and remind you that you are loved more than you know.
Remember that God loves you and wants you to love yourself and others in the same way.
If you are struggling every February in this area, then I would encourage you to look within and figure out why you struggling to feel loved. You should be happy with or without a man because you are secure in yourself and God.
It took me years to get to this point, but I am so glad I have finally arrived at that place. I still would like a man around, but I am okay if it doesn’t happen. It’s not my will, but His.
If my word is not enough and you need additional support in this area of feeling loved, i would encourage you to check out:
Supportive Blog Post:
- 10 Reasons Why You’re Giving Up On Love Again
- 28 Bible Verses To Understand Love Better
- 5 Movies To Help Single Moms Believe in Love Again
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