It is not how much we do, but how much we love.

Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you." JOHN 15:12

Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth." —Marianne Williamson

Black: I see a different truth. Settin right across the table from me. White: Which is? Black: That you must love your brother or die.

But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.

Love is the cause of causes

Love, that is the pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang […] No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love. — Walt Whitman, from "The Mystic Trumpeter", Leaves of Grass (Simon Schuster, August 1st 2006) Originally published July 4th 1855.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

I love them without trying to change them. I look at their suffering, their hopelessness, and while I'd like to wave a hand and fix it, I can't, so I do what I can... Climb down in their misery and love them where they are... People would much rather die holding someone's hand than live alone.