Reality

Being wholeheartedly God’s has much less to do with how we feel about God than it does with letting him slash out of our lives everything which stands as a rival to him so that he can fill our lives with himself and transform the very way we imagine reality. — Called to be Holy, page 54

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And I would go a step further and say it has less to do with how we feel than it does with believing—and acting—on what he says is true about us...
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