St. John's - Catholic Identity

Catholic Identity

This is what it means to seek God perfectly:

to cultivate an intellectual freedom from the images of created things in order to receive the secret contact of God in obscure love;

to love all as myself;

to rest in humility and to find peace in withdrawal from conflict and competition;

to turn aside from controversy and put away heavy loads of judgment and censorship and criticism and the whole burden of opinions that I have no obligation to carry.

And then to wait in peace and emptiness and oblivion of all things.

-- Thomas Merton