I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.
Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.
Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.
The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us - set us right with him, make us fit for him - we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that's not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand - out in the wide open spaces of God's grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.
Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is.
Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.
Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.
The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has committed to her the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is His will: That we obtain everything through Mary.
One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
