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Sooner or later, love itself will seduce you. And you will want to know, "Who have been the true lovers, among men?" You will look for the ones who loved. And when you find the philosophers, you won't stop, but mount up to the saints, and look for just one who might become, for you, an unwavering example of love's highest wisdom. And maybe you will find Jesus, a man of the highest creative genius, whose words outstrip Shakespeare, yet, who made his life a work of love and, dying, forever became a perfect symbol of sacrificial love. A man who contradicts himself only in doing more than he promises, for he says, "There is no greater love than this: that a man gives his life for his friends," but then he gives it even for his enemies. The spectacle of such a love seduces all hearts, carries all of us together with it to heaven.

Acceptance is not enabling. When we enable someone, we accept only the weakest part of them; we refuse the strongest.

It may be that the thirteenth chapter of Corinthians is the ultimate peak of Western Civilization, or all culture for that matter. Perhaps no greater words have ever been spoken, nor ever will be. And only actions follow.

Make a gift of your love to the world.

Of course, they don't understand me! If they understood me, I could stop writing.

Cynicism is blood from an open wound, weakness, sickness, and degeneracy of spirit.

God will not resent it, if you become like Him, or even become Him. On the contrary, He will have ordained it as His highest purpose for your life. The scriptures will be seen to speak of you. The prophets will call you by name. I tell you, they will call you out of the womb, and call up the Holy Spirit in your breast as you live. Listen! Even now, they summon you, and strive to evoke your destiny. In the form of holy writ, they send out their ghosts to persuade you.

If I ever stopped believing in life, it was to believe in something greater than life.

God is a big idea. The biggest. You can't expect to have it all at once.

Faith is the staff a man carves from his dream, to support him in a world that never sleeps.

Religion is important because dreams are important. Religion is the infusion of life with a tremendous dream. It is not madness to think that one may bend a secret ear to eavesdrop on the angels. Nor is there anything outlandish in naming burdens devils and obstacles demons, or in naming angels and archangels those noble sentiments and principles which shore up our convictions and carry us faithfully out of the most debilitating episodes of torpor or despondency. Indeed, even our most common language is woven, through and through, with figurative expressions against which no fair-minded person would balk. It is clear to everyone that these expressions merely add life and character to our communications, in order to better reflect our inner experiences, which are inaccessible and ineffable. Yet, figurative language and symbolism may also serve, in its turn, to enliven and empower the inner experience to which it corresponds.  Truly, all that you imagine or think upon, according to the duration and intensity of your concentration, must necessarily impress itself on your words and actions. Nothing is fantasy, if you live by it. Religion, despite its misuses and abhorrent failures, provides consistent evidence that many sensitive individuals have found (and continue to find) it efficacious to "people" their inner worlds with supernatural entities of one order or another. And we may argue that these entities are as real as any objects to which a subject's attention may become attached. Moreover, that the degree and kind of reality they possess -- at least, as far as the subject is concerned, -- may depend upon the quality and quantity of the attention they receive from the subject. Lastly, we may reason that these entities, or, at any rate, the laws and principles for which they stand, are uniquely eternal and indestructible verities; a claim which no student of the material sciences is very eager to make with respect to the objects of his own pursuit.