He has invaded your marriage with his powerful love and transforming grace.

If you fail to carry around with you a heart of gratitude for the love you've been so freely given, it is easy for you not to love others as you should.

Sure, there are times I get tired and wish he'd up and leave, but I don't get despondent.

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

But when you begin to celebrate the sovereignty of God and how he formed you and brought you and your spouse together for his glory and your good, you quit being irritated by your differences and start celebrating how your life has been enhanced by them. As a result, you will not only give room to your spouse's sensibilities, but you will honor him or her in what you do and say in the moments when you are confronted with the differences in your approach to the very same things.

The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.

But if it is life alone that dies, love is born, which is the innermost part of the spirit. It is the most mature and most precious fruit of the life that sacrifices itself. Love breaks out of the prison of individualism and nationalist stupidity. Love goes to another person, even one with a different language or of a different race, and returns from him richer.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.