“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”
Source: Gilead
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Marilynne Robinson 51
American novelist and essayist 1943Related quotes

“What really matters is what you like, not what you are like”
Variant: It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.
Source: High Fidelity

“To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life.
We is so much better than I.”
Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

[2006, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, World Wisdom, 96, 978-1-933316-28-4]
God, Beauty

“With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.”