Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.