In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity.

Since (1) charity is supernatural, and comes only from the real presence of God in the soul (St. Thomas' paragraph 3), and since (2) all men, and not only Christians, are capable of charity (as has been proved in the paragraph above), it follows that (3) all men are capable of accepting the real presence of God in their souls, even if they have defective or mistaken concepts of God.

St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;

It's out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.

8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.

Love without distinction. Love without calculation. Love without procrastination. Just love.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.

When you love someone, you expect them to love you back the same way - with a singleness of heart.

Heaven means to be one with God.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.