In Conversation with God – Volume 2 Part 2 Quotes

“St Teresa says that God bestows two remedies for all the temptations and trials that we have to endure: Love and fear ... Love will make us quicken our steps, while fear will make us look where we are setting our feet so that we shall not fall.[725]”
― Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God – Volume 2 Part 2: Eastertide

“Man was created in the image and likeness of God.[157] And God is Love.[158] Therefore the heart of man is made for love and the more he loves the more he becomes identified with God; only when he loves can he become happy. And God wishes us to be happy, here on earth too. Man cannot live without love.”
― Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God – Volume 2 Part 2: Eastertide

“We should read the Gospel with a longing to know him so as to love him. We can’t read Scripture as though it were just another book. In the sacred books the Father who is in Heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them.[404] Prayer has to accompany our reading, because we know that God is the principal author of those books. In them, and in the Gospels in particular, we find food for the soul, and a pure and lasting fount of spiritual life.[405] We should listen to the Gospel – St Augustine writes – as though Christ were present and talking to us. We shouldn’t say: those who knew him in real life were very fortunate, for many of those who knew him, did in fact crucify him; and many who did not know him believed in him. The words which our Lord spoke were written down; they have been safeguarded and preserved for us.[406]”
― Francisco Fernández-Carvajal, In Conversation with God – Volume 2 Part 2: Eastertide

“Late have I loved you, O Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you. For behold you were within me, and I outside; and I sought you outside ... You were with me, but I was not with you. I was kept from you by those things, yet had they not been in you, they would not have been at all. You called and cried to me and broke open my deafness. You sent forth your beams and shone, and chased away my blindness.[453]”
― Francisco Fernández-Carvajal, In Conversation with God – Volume 2 Part 2: Eastertide

“Man goes forth to his work and to his labour until the evening; then night comes, and with a kindly smile bids us put away all the toys we poor mortals make such a fuss over; shuts our books for us, hides our distractions from us, draws a great black coverlet over our lives ... As the darkness closes round us, we go through a dress-rehearsal of death; soul and body say good night to one another ... And then morning comes, and with morning, a re-birth.[515]”
― Francisco Fernández-Carvajal, In Conversation with God – Volume 2 Part 2: Eastertide