Crucified Love Bonaventure's Mysticism of the Crucified Christ Quotes

“Our capacity to be united to God rests not so much on our ability to love God, since our love can never equal God’s, but on our ability to suffer as a way of expressing our love for God. Bonaventure grasped this completely when he wrote: “There is no other path [to God] than through the burning love of the Crucified.”3 In Jesus Christ, suffering and love are united. This is an unfathomable mystery that fails the test of human reason alone. It is the mystics such as Francis, Bonaventure, and others, especially women mystics, who grasped the meaning of Jesus’s passion and death as the personal expression of divine love. They came to value the suffering of their lives as a way to be united to Christ and thus to the fullness of divine love.”
― Ilia Delio, Crucified Love: Bonaventure's Mysticism of the Crucified Christ