Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: 'May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.' But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burn-out. This is the way to spiritual death.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.