I said to God, “Let me love you.” And He replied, “Which part?”

“All of you, all of you,” I said.

This time God said, “There is a hideous blemish on my body, though it is such an infinitesimal part of my Being—could you kiss that if it were revealed?”

“I will try, Lord, I will try.”

And then God said, “That blemish is all the hatred and cruelty in this world.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, a 13th century Catholic theologian

“One regret that I am determined not to have when I am lying upon my death bed

Is that we did not kiss enough.”