What [he] felt for her was genuine, and not just for love of her perfect flesh. I know [him] truly, and I know that when he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood

And if it tortures you to know that another man was with her in her life, console yourself with this: he only knew her but the once

Still the girl had found her lover - a dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it. That is how he was unlike you, an…

He had been a shark trying to gnaw away at the shore, sharp-toothed and dangerous, yet unworthy of his adversary

I will love you no matter what. I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you b…

It was the affection of Christ, not the brutality of a town, that healed Zacchaeus.

Love: 'There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.'