The Love Note Quotes

“People marry based on the scientific assumption that two halves make a whole, but that’s false. Only God makes something whole.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Make your heart a deep well of the Almighty by saturating yourself in his presence, and your words will come out drenched in him no matter what you say. I can promise you, no matter how many brilliant things you have to say, he has better ones.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. Saint Augustine of Hippo”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Do not be afraid to marry a man who's firmly planted to earth, for he is the flagpole to your flag - not restricting, but anchoring, so that you may be free to fly. In return, you shall decorate the dull gray metal of his life forevermore.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Matched souls always find their way back to one another, for they seek refuse in the same place.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“The secret to finding true love is not in discovering someone who will give it to you but learning how to give it.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“When you truly love someone, you find what’s good about them and say it. It’s all a matter of where you focus.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Thank you, Father. My soft heart gushed with praise. Thank you for bringing me to a helpless state so I might witness what you wanted to do.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Dear one, I love you more than you know. I’ve seen everything you believe goes unnoticed, I’ve watched when you thought no one was looking, observed what exists below the surface. I know your strengths, and I know your weaknesses too. I even know that secret you hoped to keep from everyone. Yes, I know all of it, and I choose you in spite of—maybe because of—all those things. I choose those unbelievable strengths, those weaknesses you try to hide—every bit of it because it’s all you, my creation, and I choose you. Every day, every moment, I choose you. Dearest, if only you could see yourself from where I stand—how brave and unstoppable you would become.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“My love story took longer than most to fully show itself, but it was worth it. Worth the wait for my matched soul, worth the journey it took me on toward a deeper, greater, more eternal love than I could have ever imagined.
And I would always be grateful for what I found.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“I sighed a fluttering, breathy little sound. I couldn't help it.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Do away with petty criticisms and subtle corrections, and leave the fixing of your spouse to God. It frees you up to simply love and enjoy them, which will prove a greater influence in the end.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Sovereignty—The sovereignty of God is a thing of utter beauty. But like any good piece of art, to fully appreciate its magnitude, one must step back and drink it in as a whole, seeing how the brushstrokes of little everyday occurrences all combine to create a larger picture. Blessed are those who have the opportunity to do so this side of heaven.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Lean into it, strengthen it, fan that desire into flames and never let it go out. Allow yourself to feel that ache fully, driving you on until you’ve found the sort of true, authentic love that few truly have.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Words may be powerful, as I'd tried to convince him, but sometimes an absence of them was even more so”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“I tried to piece together a single reason I should feel that way about him when he was so wretchedly handsome, so rugged and magnificent, both inside and out.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Have a good cry into a cup of tea and come back in an hour.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Like the ammenomie? That's the only one I know."
I paused and braced myself against the urge to giggle. "They're similar, I suppose." Stop it. Don't laugh. Enough poking this man for one day.
There was a slight pause. "You want to laugh, don't you?"
"I never said a thing."
"Go ahead, have your laugh." He shot me a playful look, eyes narrowed in fun. "Amenomie."
A laugh burst out, and I clapped a hand over my mouth. "I'm sorry, Gabe. I think no less of you, but I cannot help it."
He lifted his face that was not devoid of amusement. "Amenomie. Annennemonie. How do you say it, anyway? Amenenomenomie?”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“There was always something of God in Gabe's words, it seemed-eternal truth leaked out when he opened his mouth.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“The world sorely needs to change. And you know who will change it? Women. Because God gave us our own type of strength. We must never let it go to waste by wishing we were something different.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“He was your hero.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“So I left.
But not without the letter.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“Here's to a few more adventures, then.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“All I could see when I closed my eyes was her desperate face begging me to return and hear her story—any story, for all she cared—and rescue her for a moment from the suffocation of insignificance. I felt as though I had failed her.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

“It is said you cannot change your spouse, but that’s a lie. Few others have daily access to a person’s heart, where every word and reaction is another stroke painted on the canvas of one’s reality.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note