The single desire that dominated my search for delight was simply to love and to be loved.
—Augustine

This soul of ours hath love, and cannot but love some fair one.
—Samuel Rutherford

It would be a very sharp and trying experience to me that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by His hand, that my trials were never measured out by Him, nor sent to me by His arrangement of their weight and quantity.
—Charles Spurgeon

I will read thy book, and never move
Till I have found therein thy love.
—George Herbert

I wish for myself and you much soul-prosperity.
—Charles Spurgeon

The truest charity is to endeavor to share with others every spark of religious light we possess ourselves, and so to hold up our own candle that it may give light to every one around us. Happy is that soul, which, as soon as it receives light from heaven, begins to think of others as well as itself!
—J.C. Ryle

We should never be content to talk even five minutes with another, without saying at least a word or two that may do good, that may give a helpful impulse or kindle an upward aspiration.
—J.R. Miller