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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, ...

We are all of us judged every day. We are judged by the face that looks back at us from the bathroom mirror. We are judged by the faces of the people we love and by the faces and lives of our children...

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.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

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."

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to turn him into a friend.

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

There is a lovely disarray that comes with attraction. When you find yourself deeply attracted to someone, you gradually begin to lose your grip on the frames that order your life. Indeed, much of you...

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap i...

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...

It is the prerogative and charm of beauty to win hearts.

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

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

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.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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