Divine Gaze Quotes

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)

Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.