A Prologue to Love Quotes

“If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it. --A Prologue to Love”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Prologue to Love

“The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in, from this time forth, and even for evermore!”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Prologue to Love: A Novel

“I can’t make folks like me if they’re dead set against me for one reason or another. And if somebody wants what I have, even if he’s unjust, he can cause me a heap of trouble without my having anything to do with it. “There’s only one good thing we can control, though, and that’s the way we take the miseries of life, and all the injustice and malice and cruelty, and the sickness and death and failure. It’s what we do in our souls that counts.”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Prologue to Love: A Novel

“It is not possible for us to know each other except as we manifest ourselves in distorted shadows to the eyes of others. We do not even know ourselves; therefore, why should we judge a neighbor? Who knows what pain is behind virtue and what fear behind vice? No one, in short, knows what makes a man, and only God knows his thoughts, his joys, his bitternesses, his agony, the injustices committed against him and the injustices he commits. … God is too inscrutable for our little understanding. After sad meditation it comes to me that all that lives, whether good or in error, mournful or joyous, obscure or of gilded reputation, painful or happy, is only a prologue to love beyond the grave, where all is understood and almost all forgiven. Seneca”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Prologue to Love: A Novel