Our Identity In Christ

Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of Him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on His saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to Him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know Him in and through ourselves in so far as His truth is the source of our being and His merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.

- Thomas Merton in "The Climate of Monastic Prayer"