“Faith grows when it is lived and shaped by Love.” 

“Love cannot be reduced to an ephemeral emotion. True, it engages our affectivity, but in order to open it to the beloved and thus to blaze a trail leading away from self-centredness and towards another person, in order to build a lasting relationship; love aims at union with the beloved. Here we begin to see how love requires truth. Only to the extent that love is grounded in truth can it endure over time, can it transcend the passing moment and be sufficiently solid to sustain a shared journey. If love is not tied to truth, it falls prey to fickle emotions and cannot stand the test of time. True love, on the other hand, unifies all the elements of our person and becomes a new light pointing the way to a great and fulfilled life. Without truth, love is incapable of establishing a firm bond; it cannot liberate our isolated ego or redeem it from the fleeting moment in order to create life and bear fruit.” 

“Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.” 

“‎Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.” 

“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.” 

“There is no such thing as a lover's oath. ” 

“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.” 

“He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.” 

“He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.” 

“Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.” 

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” 

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.” 

“Love is the pursuit of the whole.” 

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.” 

“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.” 

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.” 

“Love is a serious mental disease.” 

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” 

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” 

“A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.” 

“...and in thy voice I catch the language of my former heart, and read my former pleasures in the shooting lights of thy wild eyes.” 

“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells...” 

“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.” 

“to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature”