To say God is within us is to say that we are transcendent. . .He is our center, our term, our completion. . .We must be born again of the Spirit. Without the Spirit we remain flesh which cannot know God. The evolution of the butterfly is a marvelous image of what is meant here. The caterpillar must be “born again.” It must receive an impetus to enable it to be transformed into a butterfly. But it has with it, in its caterpillar state, all the potential for this. Nothing new is added; what is already there is developed. So it is with us. God is our beloved in truth now, but will be so even more truly after long and generous effort and correspondence with his action. Then we are no longer our own, but his.
– Sister Ruth Burrows
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They Walked with God: St. Bernadette Soubirous, St. John Vianney, St. Damien of Molokai, St. Andre Bessette, Bl. Solanus Casey
