Die Liebe stirbt meistens and den kleinen Fehlern, die man am Anfang so entzückend findet.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

I wanted to communicate how important it is to love on the people that are in our lives and to take every day with someone as a blessing.

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

The ties that bind a family together must surely mean more in the Spirit than we can know in the flesh.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism "thinking

God resists our evil and conquers it with good, or how could God ask the same of us?! Think about that. God shocks and stuns us into love. God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change. Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or social pressure. Love is not love unless it is totally free. Grace is not grace unless it is totally free. You would think Christian people would know that by now, but it is still a secret of the soul.

Even with all the best intentions in the world, given our different temperaments, backgrounds, and the way we process our data and information, we are going to step on one another's toes. Two people with absolutely good will can deeply hurt one another. Good people hurt one another because we all come at reality in different ways. That's why, for Jesus, the only way to achieve union is through forgiveness, not through making sin impossible.

Jesus seems to often find love in people who might not have received much love themselves. Perhaps their deep longing for it became their capacity to both receive it and give it.