"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you."
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Source: Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. edited by William J. Kelly, 1980.
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