Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So easily destroy'd, and still destroys, In those who, when they may, accept not grace.

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.