Jesus Christ, revealed to the soul by faith, in the use of the Sacraments, in the reading of Holy Scripture, by meditation and prayer, is the true principle of spiritual life. We live to God by going out of ourselves; and we become not only servants of Christ, but partakers of, by thus looking unto Him. As by the telescope we draw a distant object towards us, till it fills our sphere of vision, and we seem translated from the spot we stand on to what we thus behold, so our spiritual life passes out of itself into the higher Being; to what our faith in the use of the various means of grace draws us to, and draws Him to us. As some lower creatures, it is said, change their colour according to the food they feed on, so are we transformed by what we receive within us as the daily food of our soul's spiritual communion. The realities on which we learn to live become our real life. We know not what we are advancing to hereafter, but we may know that we here dwell in Christ, and Christ in us; are one with Christ and Christ with us. And then we receive the full consolation of what Saint John writes, dearly beloved, we are now the son of God, and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be; we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. Every one that hath this hope in Him, sanctifieth himself, even as He also is holy. Keep these things in mind, and they will not be advice thrown away.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp