Time

“[T]ime is fundamentally a question of an order of being in which we are at home.”

“Time is the fundamental basis of all life, and the reception and formation of time is as vital for us as inhalation and exhalation.”

“The structure of time evinces that being has been created with love.”

“Participation in love, which takes the form of responsive generosity, defines one’s most basic act as a creature.”

“In the midst of the empty present of the lost son, the Father is the liberating ‘today’ of the ever-greater future of love.”

“Freedom is only free for the future by virtue of a fulfilled present that is grounded in the past.”

“Our created nature is so bound up with this created time in which all living beings live that our being cannot be taken up into the divine unless the time which is connatural to us is also in some way taken up.”