It is so far as we are made sensible of our own nothingness that we shall be fitted to be vessels of power. Christ had all power given when he had gone down to death. Divine life is death to the creature. It is only when having passed through death that the Church can be the depository of power-morally so now-fully hereafter.
The first thing which I find in conversion is that God is love, and this is the highest thing of all.
In John 17 the Church is brought near enough to hear what the Son is saying to the Father.