Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

The American people have not become heartless.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

We do not judge the people we love.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I love life because what more is there?

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.