Quotes about Affection

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

For example, two people might be cooking the same meal and using exactly the same ingredients, but one is pouring Love into what he does and the other is merely trying to fill his belly. The result will be completely different, even though Love is not something that can be seen or weighed. The person making the Offering is always rewarded. The more he shares out his affection, the more his affection grows.

If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that's his love for his family.

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart, the alchemist had told him.

The battering-ram of natural affection which so often shatters faith must recoil powerless from the wall of the Gospel.

It is possible for love to grow and multiply if you work at it.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.

If I did not love you more today than I did yesterday, I would love you less, and that is intolerable. So I must find more ways to love you every day.

It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy.