"Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death; jealousy is as severe as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, nor will rivers overflow it."
Song of Songs 8:6-7

"Love being the most potent of forces, it is hardly surprising that the most overwhelming experiences of life should be those of being in love- first with God, and then with another human being."
Mike Mason

"Marriage involves us synechdochically in this mystical activity of God's by choosing for us just one person, one total stranger out of the world's billions, with whom to enter into the highest and deepest and farthest reaches of sacrificial, loving relationship."
Mike Mason

"Finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature."
William Sloane Coffin

"Never did I believe that there could be such utter happiness in the world, such a feeling of unity between two mortal beings. I love you, these three words have my life in them."
Alexandra

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."
Euripedes