Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. —C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

The distance of your love is the distance of your life.   Love is exactly as strong as life.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.

Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.

The severest self-denials and the most lavish gifts are of no value in God's esteem unless they are prompted by love.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Religion demands above all the concentration of the spirit...it is a thrusting into the unity of all things so as to come to grips in the hiddenness of the soul with the unity of the One from Whom it all comes.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.