The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

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.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I serve God.

Love is trembling happiness.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Fear is real, but so is love.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

In the real world, children love me.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.