If you love someone, try to remember how he feels. A simple rule, but powerful enough to change the world if it’s actually listened to.
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Find me another route to Heaven. The one I’m on is long and hard and full of impossible things.
But the only true test of a soul is its willingness to love. So if I am learning to love better and more deeply by this route, I am OK. I am content to let things challenge and confound – if that means I will grow in my love.
For now, the only thing I can understand is that we are hoping for freedom and our fears are holding us back. Why live that way? The hopeful ones are bolder and wiser than that.
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You will never understand the documents of love until you’ve filled them out on your own.
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Trying to measure the capacity of a heart to love – how? Why? We will never understand what it means to lose ourselves in the contemplation of Something great if we spend our energy calculating and ordering all the things we do. We must abandon ourselves, sometimes, to an unmeasured rhythm of life, defined precisely by its absence of comparison or constraint. When we approach the boundlessness of Something Beyond, we empty our minds of preconceived thoughts, and let the uncertainty overwhelm us in the most liberating way.
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Kiss me once before the sun goes down and I forget how to say your name.
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Do not ask how long you must wait, but rather – ask how much love will be gained in the act of remaining patient and biding your time in trust.
We often take for granted the desires of our heart to do right and be good – but it is these desires which give us life and inspire us toward beauty and love.
When we remember the answers we found in the stillness, we recover a sense of simplicity and a sense that all we’ve been seeking is meant to appear at the right time, in the right way, according to the perfect Will of GOD.