“To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection.”
“Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections.”
“With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.”
“I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.”
“Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”