If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.