Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life. Raymond Carver
Great, strong, spiritual love - which is always at the same time a genuine, unsentimental love of man - cannot be without wrath. ... Anger can no more be separated from love than flame and heat can from fire. Love and anger are a single fire of the Spirit. Constantin Brunner