Richard Rohr, OFM

God wants useable instruments who will carry the mystery, the weight of glory and the burden of sin simultaneously.

We move to a deeper level of Being ourselves when we genuinely receive the being and the gaze of the self-giving Jesus.

If God would accept us now, when we are clearly unworthy, then why would God change the policy later?

Stop trying. Stop forcing reality. Learn the mystery of surrender and trust, and then it will be done unto you, through you, with you, in you, and, very often, in spite of you

This is precisely the meaning of the Christian affirmation that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Scriptures. The sails are set for a God of suffering and humble love, as we finally see in Jesus

There is no life without death, there is no death without life. We call it the paschal or Passover mystery.