When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

The final word is love.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.