“Human love is greater than divine love…divine love is at worst an illusion, at best a dream for some imaginary future time. Human love is here and now.”

“The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the burdens that human people themselves alone must carry.”

“Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.”

“Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”

“For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human dress.”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”