What some people love is not a person but the experience of being in love. The first is irreplaceable; the second is not.


“The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.”
― The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God
― The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“The supreme being must be unique, without equal… If God is not one, he is not God’ (Tertullian, Adv. Marc, 1, 5, 3: PL 2, 274).”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church

“As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God’s love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life’s mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other’s inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds and hearts in the ways of God;”
― Three to Get Married
― Three to Get Married

“In the words of St Augustine, ‘I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”
― Holy Bible: English Standard Version
― Holy Bible: English Standard Version
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