Emily Love

“How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.”
― John Newton

“You’ll be able to spot people who are becoming love because they want to build kingdoms, not castles. They fill their lives with people who don’t look like them or act like them or even believe the same things as them. They treat them with love and respect and are more eager to learn from them than presume they have something to teach.”
― Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

“Now I know what we were trying to stand for, and what I believe we did stand for: the possibility that among the world's wars and sufferings two people could love each other for a long time, until death and beyond, and could make a place for each other that would be a part of their love, as their love for each other would be a way of loving their place. This love would be one of the acts of greater love that holds and cherishes all the world.
By a long detour through the hell that humans have learned to make, Nathan had come home. He came back to Port William, and to me, to the home and household we made, to his family and friends, to our children yet to be born. And of course, he came back to loss, to the absence of those who did not come back, and of those who would leave.”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis