But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that the human intellect can hope to grasp. For hardly was He conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, when He began to enjoy the Beatific Vision, and in that vision all the members of His Mystical Body were continually and unceasingly present to Him, and He embraced them with His redeeming love
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the deep love that Christ has for humanity from the moment of His Incarnation, which surpasses human understanding.
In this quote by Pope Pius XII, the essence of divine love and knowledge is articulated, highlighting that from His very conception, Jesus Christ was aware of and fully embraced humanity with a profound, redeeming love. This love transcends human comprehension, suggesting that while we may seek to understand divine love, its depth and significance are far beyond our intellectual capabilities. The quote invites reflection on the mystery of divine grace and the relationship between Christ and the members of His Mystical Body, emphasizing an eternal connection enveloped in love.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a religious service to emphasize the love of Christ.
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
To live without risk is to risk not living.
It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.
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