“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”

“God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.”

“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.”

“When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness - as if the tearing asunder of the flesh must turn at last into a disembodied anguish.”

“marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that God loves each of them with an infinite love and has called them to each other to be living witnesses of that love. To love is to embody God's infinite love in a faithful communion with another human being.”

“when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.”