When you love someone, you can't help but pray for them.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn't come from desire—at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness—sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness — sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.

The Bible tells us to speak the truth in love because we can't have community without candor. Solomon said, An honest answer is a sign of true friendship. Sometimes this means caring enough to lovingly confront one who is sinning or is being tempted to sin.

Because when you can't hear the cry, when you stop caring for the widow, the orphan, and the refugee among you, it always leads to the diminishing of your empire.

Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.