Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.

...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Saying 'I love you' only takes seconds, but proving it takes a lifetime.

The world is full of angels; if you can't find one, be one.

Lacking real compassion and charity for others, he would take pleasure in weeping and rejoicing with the fictional characters on the stage. His love was not real.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

We don't want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture.

Sometimes what hurts more than your enemies hating you is your friends and family remaining silent in a time of need.

Faith always comes to the surface and always produces action. It cannot be contained. Thoughts and intents that are held within and not acted upon are not faith, no matter what we like to say. ("My faith is personal" is a favorite. But that is a self-contradicting statement. Faith is always acted out, never kept bottled up within.)

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.