To discover Jesus is to discover a treasure. This is what two categories of people tell us, the converts and the saints. The converts, because their painful quest for the Absolute, their lengthy wanderings through the night of despairing nonsense or of sin so terribly monotonous have emerged into an unexpected dawn - unexpected and all the more astounding for that very reason. The saints, because their unqualified option in favor of God enables them to progress day by day in an ocean of love which elates them and at the same time fills them with a sweet torment beside which human joys appear as laughable trinkets.

Nil Guillemette, SJ
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