We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one. ” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.
Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.