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The one essential for sanctity is the capacity to love.

— Caryll Houselander Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

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It is almost as much the duty of a Christian to be loved as to love.

Nothing could be more untrue than the often-repeated statement that we all worship the same God; or that other, that whatever we worship the result is the same.

The one thing she [Mary] did and does is the one thing that we all have to do, namely, to bear Christ into the world.

Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

The beginning of human happiness, and even of human sanity, is to begin to know God . . . Goodness draws the human soul as a tide is drawn by light.

Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

To surrender all that we are, as we are, to the spirit of love in order that our lives may bear Christ into the world – that is what we shall be asked.

Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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