My children are not so much mine as they are God’s. - Jeremy Taylor

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours.

But exhortations must prevail with their own proper weight, not by the passion of the speaker.

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.