We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.