To fall in love with God
is the greatest romance;
to seek Him the greatest adventure;
to find Him, the greatest human achievement.
--St. Augustine
Love is the beginning, end and means of the entire Christian life.
[H]uman hearts are created to love deeply and fully, to experience the depth of divine desire, and to love as they have first been loved.
Human hearts are drawn to intimacy with the Heart of God and with one another through the Heart of Christ.
Human hearts beat in rhythm with the heartbeat of God as they ‘Live Jesus’, and allow the Heart of the gentle, humble Savior to inhabit and animate them.
Human hearts rest in the Heart of God like children in the arms of a parent or lovers on the breast of a beloved. Human hearts beat and breathe together in friendship, in families, in intentional communities, in the Church and in loving service, revealing the Heart of the gentle Jesus alive in the world.
Holiness, sanctity, sainthood: these words do not refer to an élite cadre of super-human heroes or to a chilly, inhuman piety; they are not reserved for religious professionals or for individuals who are ‘not of this world’. Holiness is the destiny of all human beings. Sanctity is simply the deep realization of the life given over to Love. And all are created for and invited into the mystery of the divine and human world where heart speaks gently to heart.
--Wendy Wright,
Heart Speaks to Heart:
The Salesian Tradition
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