Lord, that I may know myself as you know me. (Confessions, 10, 1, 1).
The search for God is the search for happiness. The encounter with God is happiness itself. (The Customs of the Catholic Church, 11, 18).
We search God out by loving Him; we reach Him, not by becoming entirely what He is, but in nearness to Him, and in wonderful and immaterial contact with Him, and in being inwardly illuminated and occupied by His truth and holiness. He is light itself; we get enlightenment from Him. The greatest commandment, therefore, which leads to happy life, and the first, is this: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and soul, and mind.” For to those who love the Lord all things work unto good. Hence Paul adds shortly after, “I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor virtue, nor things present, nor things future, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (The Customs of the Catholic Church, 11, 18).
God who made you, doesn’t want anything of you but yourself. (Sermon 34, 7).
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