Called to Be Holy Quotes

“someone, we desire to cleanse our lives of anything that could hurt our beloved. Thus, a basic characteristic of our relationship with Our Lord will be a daily dying to sin and rising in virtue. Thomas Merton describes the love of God as a brilliant ray of sunlight shining through a window. The light will always reveal streaks, or smudges, or dirt on the window. We let more light in the more we purify the window. Thus, the way to receive more and more of the light of Christ’s love is to constantly purify our life of sin. That is the exhortation found on almost every page of the Gospel — conversion, repentance, metanoia — call it what you want. The daily wrestling with that dark side of ourselves that holds us back from the freedom and self-giving that this romance with the”
― Timothy M. Dolan, Called to Be Holy