SO GOOD QUOTES

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BETROTHAL

“Jesus is God of the Impossible; my powerlessness shows his power; my insignificance as a creature shows his being as the creator.

There are moments when God makes us feel the extreme limits of our powerlessness; then, and only then, do we understand our nothingness right down to the depths.

For so many years, for too many years, I have fought against my powerlessness, my weakness. Often I have refused to admit it to myself, preferring to appear in public with a nice mask of self assurance.

It is pride which will not let us admit this powerlessness; pride which won’t let us accept being inadequate. God has made me understand this, little by little.

Now I don’t fight any more; I try to accept myself. I try to face up to myself without illusions, dreams or fantasies. . . Now I contrast my powerlessness with the powerfulness of God, the heap of my sins with the completeness of his mercy, and I place the abyss of my smallness beneath the abyss of his greatness.

I seem now to have reached a means of encountering him in a way I have never known before; a togetherness I had never experienced before, an awareness of his love I had never previously felt. Yes, it is really my misery which attracts his power, my wounds which shout after him, my nothingness which makes him throw himself open to me.

And meeting between God’s totality and man’s nothingness is the greatest wonder of creation. It is the most beautiful betrothal because its bond is a love which gives itself freely and a love which accepts.”

—Carlo Carretto