I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

- John 14:2-6

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When you follow the path of active virtue, Christ is the way. When you practice divine contemplation, He is the truth. But many have done both yet failed to obtain life. Either they practiced virtue in order to impress men (and so received their reward in this life), or they became conceited about their knowledge of doctrines and strayed from the right path. Therefore, to the ‘way’ and the ‘truth’—the paths of active virtue and divine contemplation—the Lord adds ‘life.’ Ignoring the deadly praise of men, let us follow the path and adhere to the doctrines leading to Him Who is life immortal.

- Blessed Theophylact