Excitement may galvanize the Christian's hands into a fitful and spasmodic activity. But there will be no patient continuance in well-doing, no unwearied labour in missionary work at home or abroad, without love.

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that was everything.

is it better not to fall in love at all, or to love someone for a little while, even if you have to say good-bye?

Love will require mutual trust, opening your hearts and lives to each other. It takes work to build a true relationship. The same is true of Yahweh.

I don't think it's right to unburden your own heart by laying the load on someone else's. Some secrets are better left untold.

But it is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in each other. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. A

Giving with strings of secret expectations attached is the greatest invitation to heartbreak. That's not love. That's manipulation.

Relationships don't come in packages of perfection; relationships come in packages of potential.