True love is something seen and known by others.

As our dear Husband, in wooing his [church], received many a black stroke, so his bride, in wooing him, gets many blows, and in this wooing there are strokes upon both sides

The world is healed one loving thought at a time.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

Love is to people what water is to plants.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God." What that means is this: Love is real. It's an eternal creation and nothing can destroy it. Anything that isn't love is an illusion. Remember this, and you'll be at

The miracle of love is expressed through other people. When a beloved is sent from God—and no one can tell you if they are, but the spirit within you—then they do hold the key to your soul's liberation. God has given it to them.

Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other. Like

In the holy relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person.

It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.