Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.
