Quotes about Grace

New Paganism may be defined as an outlook on life that holds to the sufficiency of human science without faith, and the sufficiency of human power without grace. In other words, its two tenets are Scientism which is a deification of the experimental method, and Humanism, which is a glorification of a man who makes God to his own image and likeness.

One cannot tell when grace is coming or how it will work on the soul; whether it will come as a result of a disgust with sin.

Our Lord has a double view of us: the way He intended us to be and the way we corresponded to His grace.

Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of love; Magdalen was there too, like a broken flower, a wounded thing. But foremost among all-God pity her!-was His own mother. Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ.

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.

We grow weary, of course, but God is unwearied in giving us new strength.

Thus He did at a marriage feast what He would not do in a desert; He worked in the full gaze of men what He had refused to do before Satan. Satan asked Him to turn stones into bread in order that He might become an economic Messias; His mother asked Him to change water into wine that He might become a Savior.

It is not wisdom that saves; it is ignorance! There is no redemption for the fallen

Every sorrow is really the "Shade of His Hand outstretched caressingly."

Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an environment of love.

It was only after Adam and Eve had by sin lost the inner effulgence of grace that they became conscious of the fact that they were naked. They felt the need for clothes to cover their newfound shame; previously their bodies had Glowed with a man mantle of charity woven by the fingers of God. It is almost universally true that excessive external display betrays an inner poverty and nakedness of the soul.

Only those who die with Him will live with Him.