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There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast”; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely. But Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless a...

A Valentine’s Day Tradition What better way to say, “I love you,” than passing your beloved some sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, and glycerin wrapped in a chalkly Necco wafer heart? Maybe some of you re...

Let us love the Lord God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength. Let us love Him with all our understanding, powers, and fortitude. Let us offer to Him our every effort, ...

When he was a young boy, twelfth-century church leader Bernard of Clairvaux fell asleep outside a church while waiting to go in for a Christmas Eve service. In his sleep he had a dream, a kind of visi...

Recently a group of researchers conducted a computer analysis of three decades of hit songs. The researchers reported a statistically significant trend toward narcissism and hostility in popular music...

Love your enemy-it will drive him nuts.

He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

Patti and Bruce, feeling a tug from Jesus, welcomed a four-year-old foster child into their home. Originally the child welfare organization told them Jonathan would be staying with them and their four...

Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of  Where the Wild Things Are  and other children’s books, gets many letters from his young fans. A favorite was a “charming” drawing sent on by a little boy’s m...

In love. What does that even mean? “Love” is a junk drawer we dump all sorts of ideas into, just because we don’t have anywhere else to put them. I “love” God, and I “love” fish tacos. See the probl...

You shall love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart.

Katja, our seven-year-old granddaughter, stepped in it, as they say. She had doggie droppings on the bottom of her tennies. Not just one foot, mind you, but both. Her mother, Maureen, suggested she le...

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

“One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.”

Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of and other children’s books, gets many letters from his young fans. A favorite was a “charming” drawing sent on by a little boy’s mother. “I loved it,” Sendak ...

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Ought we not to love dearly the neighbor, who truly represents to us the sacred Person of our Master? And is this not one of the most powerful motives we could have for loving each other with an arden...

There really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

You are good and all-powerful, caring for each one of us as though the only one in your care.

We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts...

I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope.

"Love! The walks over soft grass, the smiles over candlelight, the arguments over everything else."

If you want to impact someone’s life, love them when they least expect it and least deserve it.

Love that reaches up is adoration. Love that reaches out is affection. But love that stoops is grace.