"Christianity is not a moral code. It's a way of life. It's an adventure. The most splendid adventure of all: an adventure in sanctity.
I don't shut my eyes to the fact: that one must be mad to become a saint, and that many of those now canonized were wary of ways unfolding before them, this progression that carried them along to holiness...But beyond our fears, we must have faith, in our Lord Jesus Christ, a faith that surpasses the wildest hope of man, a faith that simply reminds us that God loves us, and that this man, this saint that we are asked to become.
This man is, on the one hand, governed by difficulties of life, of existence, of living the life of man, with his passions, his weakness, his tenderness. But on the other hand, he wants to follow Jesus Christ."
HD
