This may not be exact but it's close. Who said it and it what context if possible.

thanks mike

Dostoyevsky said [wrote], “I am convinced that the only Hell which exists is the inability to love.”.
~according to Dr. Mark Pitstick
http://www.allsoulsandspirit.com/newage/hellarticle.htm
and Father James P. Walker
http://www.doy.org/viewpast.asp?ID=757
and also on this webpage
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020707/ncr1.htm
I did not find a source for the quote.

"The only abnormality is the inability to love."
- Anais Nin

Dr. Karl Menninger, the noted authority in the world of medicine and psychiatry, said, "Love is the medicine for the sickness of the world." He tells his staff, which includes doctors, nurses, orderlies, and cleaning people, that the most important thing they can offer a patient is love. When people learn to give an receive love they recover from most of their illnesses. The biggest health problem in the world is the inability to love and receive love.
~Pastor Glenn Pease
http://www.intohisword.net/fathers/peter42.shtml

Heaven is the capacity to love, to open our hearts, to feel the pain of the other and respond. Hell is the inability to love. It is to be locked into one's self. That is hell.
~Russell L. Bennett
http://www.geotec.net/fellowship_ucc/sermons/99/991121se.htm

1970-In response to a letter asking if she considered homosexuality a disease, advice columnist Dear Abby responded "No! It is the inability to love at all which I consider an emotional illness. "

What is hell? I maintain it is the suffering caused by the inability to love.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Final development of the personality, of one's 'I' is denial of self, giving one's self wholly and undividedly to each and everyone. This is the greatest happiness, this is Christ's Paradise."
~ Dostoyevsky

"Infernal fire is the fire of love" is the inability to respond to God's love. "There, it will be a continuation of what the soul was in here"
~The Holy Fathers

I think everyone should love life above everything in the world....Love it, regardless of logic as you say. It must be regardless of logic. it's only then one can understand the meaning of it.
~Ivan Karamazov in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Brother's Karamazov
http://glscott.net/HtmlTxt/misc/misc_quotes.html

[This message was edited on 11-16-02 at 01:40 PM.]

Happy Thanksgiving.

mike