“Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.”
“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
“When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.”
“No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the well-beloved, and no service is so repulsive that love cannot make it delightful and easy.”
“He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.”
“Service without spirituality is exhausting and hopeless. But . . . spirituality without service is barren and selfish.”