20 Quotes by Paul Chaloux

This is the ultimate role of suffering: to facilitate our return to our heavenly Father, Who loves us more than we love ourselves and in Whose presence we will find joy and fulfillment (10)

The (Beatific) Vision incorporates all that is good and true in the universe: the beauty of mountain vistas and sunsets at the beach and the warm embrace of the person who loves you best, all wrapped together is a never-ending kaleidoscope of joy (17)

Joy is not in opposition to suffering it is the outcome of successfully meeting its challenges and completing its tasks (9)

To be joyful is to experience perfection, to share in the divine nature; in some sense, to become like God (8)

Understood properly, suffering gives us hope for the Beatific vision and the motivation to attain it. (270)

Suffering has a way of turning a person inward, toward where God resides (xvii)

At its deepest level, suffering is a call to conversion by God (18).

Evil exists only as a privation of good, and God withholds or takes away goodness either to redirect of to improve mankind in some way (162)

1. The ultimate message of the theology of suffering is one that provides the perspective that God loves us as only the Creator of the Universe could (270)