Christ is All

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk on how Christ reveals Himself as being all in the heart of man:

"Do you desire good for yourself?

Every good is in Me.

Do you desire blessedness?

Every blessedness is in Me.

Do you desire beauty?

What is more beautiful than Me?

Do you desire nobleness?

What is more noble than the Son of God and the Holy Virgin?

We are Mysteries to Ourselves

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The soul that rises with us, our life's star,

Hath had elsewhere in its setting,

And cometh from afar;

Not in entire forgetfulness,

And not in utter nakedness,

But in trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God, who is our home:

Heaven lines about us in our infancy!

Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie

Thy soul's immensity;

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep

Thy heritage; thou eye among the blind,

That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,

Haunted for ever by the eternal mind

Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!

On whom those truths do rest..."