The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, yet hate is short, and love is very long.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Amongst Christians not seeing eye-to-eye situation is okay but not an eye-ball to eye-ball situation.

Education without values is all about making man a cleverer devil.

Eros kind of love will have naked bodies; Agape kind of love will have naked personalities.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

According to some people friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; but the truth is that it is one of those things that give value to survival.