Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything … - Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

If there may be doubts for men and for a childless woman as to the way to, fulfil the will of God, for a mother that path is firmly and clearly defined, and if she fulfils it humbly with a simple heart she stands on the highest point of perfection a human being can attain, and becomes for all a model of that complete performance of God's will which all desire. Only a mother can before her death tranquilly say to Him who sent her into this world, and Whom she has served by bearing and bringing up children whom she has loved more than herself - only she having served Him in the way appointed to her can say with tranquillity, Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace. And that is the highest perfection to which, as to the highest good, men aspire.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.