“Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness.”

Variant: What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Source: Middlemarch (1871)

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.xv

"The Holy Dimension", p. 333
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: He whose soul is charged with awareness of God earns his inner livelihood by a passionate desire to pour his life into the eternal wells of love. … We do not live for our own sake. Life would be preposterous if not for the love it confers.
Faith implies no denial of evil, no disregard of danger, no whitewashing of the abominable. He whose heart is given to faith is mindful of the obstructive and awry, of the sinister and pernicious. It is God's strange dominion over both good and evil on which he relies. … Faith is not a mechanical insurance but a dynamic, personal act, flowing between the heart of man and the love of God.

Newbery Award acceptance speech (1969)

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

"A Story of Doom", Book VII, p. 191.
A Story of Doom (1867)

Source: The Burning Secret and other stories

Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles