Our model is Jesus. And that means complete contempt for all that fallen nature has preferred to God; and so, indifference and detachment. For the follower of Christ, the goods of this world are not his master; he is not dominated by them. When, in the normal course of things they come his way, he accepts them; when they do not, he does without them. He is superior to them - above them. His life has its source higher than these things; it has its centre in God, who alone suffices for him, and is his sole good.

I need hardly remind you that this unique centre does not exclude other affections and activities; on the contrary, it includes them. The supernatural life is not a narrow and poor life; it is essentially wide and rich. It brings all within its scope, but all in order, everything in its place. It takes to itself all our faculties and all our senses, and embraces in its sweep all that we do, all that we think, all that we love, and directs the whole towards the end which is the true good, and to Him who is its source.

Hence both its complexity and its unity. And this, because its term is most high; indeed, the Infinite. And so I come back to what I said before: passion has the value which its object imparts to it. If that object is the Infinite, it will give existence an infinite value and plenitude.

Where Silence Is Praise pp.59-60