The kingdom of heaven is primarily about loving God and the experience of God. It is Jesus Christ who makes not only the experience of God a reality, but gives us a share in the supernatural, divine life of God. The Son of God became man not only to save us and bring about the kingdom of heaven, but to make us like God by giving us a share in the divine nature.
Love of God
Pope Francis: Freedom Means Always Choosing the Good; A Challenge in Today’s World
Freedom means always choosing the good, which is a challenge in today’s world that must be met with courage and resolve in order to attain to our human destiny of eternal communion with God.
The Desire of Your Heart and the One In Whom It Is Forever Attained
God alone suffices. Exchange not reality for illusion, beauty for a forgery, or self-gratification and fleeting pleasure for perfect and lasting happiness, but gaze into history, find and embrace the sublime wonders of the plan of God, and forever sate the irrepressible thirst of your heart
In Love With the Beloved and In Adoration of His Blood
When we think about it, what could God have done that is more perfect, meaningful, revealing, astonishing, moving, life-changing and all the rest, than to become man, assume our human nature and all that we are (with the exception of sin), and shed his blood in order to put our sins to death and gift us with new, everlasting life?
In The Possession of God, Every Difficulty Fades Away In The Light of Heaven
Given the difficulties which confront us daily, it is helpful to remember the many incomparable gifts that God has showered upon us, especially the supreme Gift above all gifts, his only Son who was sent “into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him” (Jn 3:17).