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“Worship trains our affections in such a way that we begin to desire everlasting things” (pg. 100).

“We know only in love; we make progress in the truth by loving. When we love, we enjoy; we also desire to share the fruits of our contemplation. As the doctors of the church universally recognized, knowledge of God is deeply participatory” (pg. 60).

“The radical interruption of our idolatries by God in Jesus Christ is radically regenerative: new creation is its fruit. I was blind but now I see. But what do I see but the one who has been there all along, declaring ‘himself in all of being’?” (pg. 40)

“The more we are like him, the more human we are, and the more human we are, the more we resemble him as his likeness. We grow in being, becoming more rather than less real, and all that because we live in a believing relation to the one who ‘is being’” (pg. 35).

“Accordingly, it is fitting to begin treatment of the Christian life with God's existence. This name above all others instructs us in the nature of the relationship between the created and uncreated. This relationship, we discover, is a participatory one. For example, God is life. Life belongs to God, and life, whether it be human or the life of living things such as trees, exists only in relation to God” (pg. 7)

“The Christian's manner of existence is to imitate God's manner of existence. There is nothing in God that is not himself. May it increasingly be said of us that there is nothing in us that is not of God.” (42)