The greatness of life

Many people I speak with seem lukewarm and uneducated with regard to their Christian faith. They're seeking something to give more meaning to life, or they're seeking something to fill a vague, misunderstood gap in their life. Being a Christian, I mean really striving to be a Christian, is the answer.

"When a soul has understood the greatness of that life, when it has grasped that the wellspring of it is to be found in union with Christ through faith and charity, it aspires to the perfection of that union; it seeks the fullness of the life that it should, in accordance with the thought of God, possess within itself. That union--might it be just a dream, the soul asks itself? No, it is not a dream; it can-it should-become a reality, sublime as that may be."

"What seems impossible to men is easy for God: 'With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'"

-Blessed Columba Marmion

Blessed Columba Marmion, Christ, the Life of the Soul, trans. Alan Bancroft (Bethesda, MD: Zaccheus Press, 2005).