Here's a quote from one of my favorite theologians, Olivier Clément:
"And if you do not succeed in "keeping the commandments," never consider yourself lost. Do not torment yourself in a moralizing or willful manner. Deeper still, beyond your shame and your disgrace, there is Christ. Turn to Him, let Him love you and bestow His strength upon you. There is no point in hammering away at the surface, the heart is what must change.
Your first task is not to try to love God but only to understand that He loves you. If love responds to love and you are awakened in the depth of your heart, then the very life of Christ, that is the breath of the Spirit, will arise within you. Now you have only to remove the obstacles, deviations, all the stones and silt deep within you that stop up the well-spring - though henceforth that will be your desire.
Once and for all, you will have to take a breath deeper than the air of this world, "breath in the Holy Spirit" as Gregory of Sinai says. And may this breath within you unite with, liberate and express the lament of creation, the hope of the cosmos..."
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