“Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.”

“God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“The undivided heart is a good thing, as long as you love somebody. In fact, a divided heart that loves someone is better than an undivided heart that loves nobody -- the latter would actually be undivided egoism. It would mean having one's heart full, but with the most corrupting thing there is: oneself. Of this type of virgin and celibate, unfortunately none too rare, Charles Peguy has rightly said: "Because they do not belong to someone else, they think they belong to God. Because they love no one else, they think that they love God.”

“The most exquisite joy is a sting to the heart, and love -- love is a crisis of the soul.”

“These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps”