Love has three and only three intimacies: speech, vision,
and touch. These three intimacies God has chosen to make his love intelligible
to our poor hearts. God has spoken: he told us that he loves us: that is
revelation. God has been seen: that is the incarnation. God has touched us
by his grace: that is redemption. Well indeed, therefore, may he say: ‘What
more could I do for my vineyard than I have done? What other proof could I give
my love than to exhaust myself in the intimacies of love? What else could I do
to show that my own Sacred Heart is not less generous than your own?’
If we
answer these questions aright, then we will begin to repay love with love ....
then we will return speech with speech which will be our prayer; vision with
vision which will be our faith; touch with touch which will be our communion.
Fulton J Sheen The Eternal Galilean
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