'Nobody who knows you completely can love you completely. There are people who think you're great because they don't really know you. There is nobody on the face of earth who could know you to the bottom and love you to the skies. But we want that.
When someone likes you but doesn't know you, it's not that satisfying. And when someone knows you and doesn't like you, that certainly isn't satisfying. What we want is to be utterly known and utterly loved.
And on that day, at the coming of the Lord, we'll finally get what we've longed for - from him and one another. We'll be utterly known and utterly loved. Yes, the future is a world of love, the kind of love you want, a personal love.'
Timothy Keller, 'Rubbing Hope into the Reality of Death' in Nancy Guthrie (Ed.), O Love That Will Not Let Me Go, p.89.
