I don't know who St. Valentine was, but I hope he died alone, surrounded by couples.

Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

I wanted to communicate how important it is to love on the people that are in our lives and to take every day with someone as a blessing.

God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there.

To be a friend of God, you must care about all the people around you whom God cares about. Friends of God tell their friends about God.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...

You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.

This is my commandment," Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, "That you love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). The simplicity and force of this statement take away the breath.