“Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.”

“Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love.”

“In the evening we shall be examined on love.”

“In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human successes, but on how well we have loved.”

“ To reach satisfaction in all, desire satisfaction in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all, desire to be nothing. To come to the knowledge of all, desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to enjoy what you have not, you must go by a way in which you enjoy not. To come to the possession you have not, you must go by a way in which you possess not. To come to what you are not, you must go by a way in which you are not.   John of the Cross”

“There is nothing better or more necessary than love.”

“Love is the measure by which we shall be judged.”