Some believe that faith and salvation come with our effort to look for, to seek the Lord. Whereas it’s the opposite: you are saved when the Lord looks for you, when He looks at you and you let yourself be looked at and sought for. The Lord will look for you first. And when you find Him, you understand that He was waiting there looking at you, He was expecting you from beforehand. That is salvation: He loves you beforehand. And you let yourself be loved. Salvation is precisely this meeting where He works first.
--Pope Francis, My Door is Always Open: a Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change
