"Every Person Is What He Loves"

​​"To love what is
below the human,
is degradation;

to love what is human
for the sake of the human,
is mediocrity;

to love the human
for the sake of the Divine,
is enriching;

to love the Divine
for its own sake
​is sanctity."
Ven. Fulton Sheen

"Every person is what he loves. Love becomes like unto that which it loves. If it loves heaven, it becomes heavenly; if it loves the carnal as a god, it becomes corruptible. The kind of immortaily we have depends on the kind of loves we have. Putting it negatively, he who tells you what he does not love, also tells you what he is. Amor pondus meum: "Love is my gravitation," said St. Augustine. This slow conversion of a subject into an object, of a lover into the beloved, of the miser into his gold, of the saint into his God, discloses the importance of loving the right things. The nobler our loves, the nobler our character. To love what is below the human, is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human, is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine, is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity." ~ Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

Sister praying the Stations of the Cross under the loving gaze of Our Lady