Jean Ingelow: Quotes about love

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“The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.”

Jean Ingelow

"Scholar and Carpenter", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: p>The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.He waits for us, while, houseless things,
We beat about with bruised wings
On the dark floods and water-springs,
The ruined world, the desolate sea;
With open windows from the prime
All night, all day, He waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.</p

Love , Waiting , Flying

“Divine Love came down to take on itself our sins, but there is no Saviour to do the like for our mistakes.”

Jean Ingelow

Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 1, p. 15.

Love

“O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep,
Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light
Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
Love is a pouting child.”

Jean Ingelow

"Sleep (A Woman Speaks)", line 1, p. 98.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

Sleep , Light , Love , Night

“Learn that to love is the one way to know,
Or God or man: it is not love received
That maketh man to know the inner life
Of them that love him; his own love bestowed
Shall do it.”

Jean Ingelow

"A Story of Doom", Book VII, p. 191.
A Story of Doom (1867)

God , Learning , Way , Life