Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. – Mortimer Adler
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. – Mortimer Adler
Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. Thats why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. – Mortimer Adler
When we ask for love, we dont ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love. – Mortimer Adler