No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.

A young husband with an unfaithful wife, who is consecrated and dedicated to continence, eats daily of the Bread of Life so that the bride may one day return to both the home and the faith.

Love itself starts with the desire for something good.

A man's love decreases with the revelation of defects; a woman's does not. A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults. There is something divine in that kind of love, because God loves us in spite of all defects, our failings, and our sins. A man may stand for the Justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.

Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

To be free of passion and yet full of love.

She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.