"The things that we love tell us what we are."
"Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature."
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Source: Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Peter Kreeft (1990). “A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica”, p.41, Ignatius Press
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