Chapter 11 [final post]
For March 26 NB: This is the last chapter that we shall present. But there follows an Appendix, titled "Florilegium," which is a collection or chain of beautiful, prayerful quotations from saints and spiritual writers. 11. Then We Shall Be Like Him Read the following digest of quotations. Then reflect upon the questions further below. Quotations "He thirsts for us! That is how much He loves us. He loves us in our thirst, and He loves us with an even more intense thirst than ours. Therefore... it is so helpful in prayer just to let Him love us." (286) "The more personal a relationship is, the more interior, the more capable of increasingly deeper love it is." (288) "This side of death, even [a] profoundly gracious relationship is still filled with a painful longing, a longing that is as deep as it is loving. Our likeness to Him is beyond comprehension now, yet that likeness constitutes the deepest heart of ourselves." (291) "God's provide