Love as a Form of Life

“It is precisely the experience of the body as the opening of the person to the world that is decisive for understanding why the Christian sacraments cannot be received virtually.”

“Hospitality, the reception of another, presides over all, and the diversity of vocations is nothing else than the diversity of modes of hospitality rendered to God and to neighbor, who is his icon.”

“Only because the primal ground of the mystery of God is an eternal gratuity—an unfathomable unity of being and letting-be—can there be something that is not God that is still good for it to be.”

“[W]onder—the essence of the philosophical life—is a grace: a gift from another.”

“He who can say ‘Yes’ to the Crucified out of the depth of his heart says ‘Yes’ to a love that gives itself for free, a love that can give itself away without having to hold onto itself at all.”

“The word of God in the full sense of the term is not the written word in itself, but its actualization in its listeners or readers who receive the grace to participate in the eternal and uninterrupted speech of God.”

“The act of yielding up his ‘Adamly’ soul is the human realization of the Son’s eternally eager readiness to do that which the Father wills.”

“[C]atechesis is not only instruction but also an initiation into Christian mores and an incorporation into the ecclesial community.”