Remember that family isn't just blood kin but anyone who fits into your heart.

But a girl should never get over needing her mother.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Love is the essence of God.

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.

I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

All men know their children mean more than life.