Friday, January 23, 2015

transformed by the love of God


back window, Carmel de Lisieux, France


Anyone who loves God in the depths of his heart has already been loved by God. In fact, the measure of a man’s love for God depends upon how deeply aware he is of God’s love for him. When this awareness is keen it makes whoever possesses it long to be enlightened by the divine light, and this longing is so intense that it seems to penetrate his very bones. He loses all consciousness of himself and is entirely transformed by the love of God.

~From the treatise On Spiritual Perfection 
by Diadochus of Photice


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