"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."

"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit."