Faith is to know that we are loved. It is to answer love with love. ‘Love me with love, you who are loved.’ To love God is not a duty but a cry of recognition, when we understand that he has first loved us, even to the horror of the cross, of hell. Then our timid liberty is stirred, our heart is moved and all that matters henceforward is that wound by which life comes to us.
OLIVIER CLÉMENT The Roots of Christian Mysticism, Ch. 3
