The Foundation of All Virtues

Human love is given to illuminate by its sincerity the heart of another, there is no greater power to inspire than the power of love.
The desire for service, gentleness, tolerance, kindness, forgiveness, all come from love.
Love alone is a fountain from which all virtues fall as drops of sparkling water.
Love is given to inspire divine love in the heart of man, and all the beauty that man sees on earth is beauty created by the power of love, and by the power of love he learns to recognize it as a reflection of the beauty of heaven.
Thus may earth become heaven, and heaven and earth one single vision of the glory of God.

Love alone is the fountain from which all virtues

fall as drops of sparkling water.