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“In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should ...

What keeps you from loving others the way you, yourself, crave to be loved? And conversely, what’s lacking in your life (or more accurately, in your heart) that keeps you ...

Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

Nothing beats that beautiful feeling of being in a loving relationship (or even a new one) that has lots of potential. And ...

Many people spend much of their lives searching for what is arguably one of the most subjective of human experiences — true ...