“Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.”

—  Bernard of Clairvaux

From, On Loving of God, Paul Halsall trans., Ch. 3

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