Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

If we consider men and women generally, and apart from their professions or occupations, there is only one situation I can think of in which they almost pull themselves up by their bootstraps, making an effort to read better than they usually do. When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.