If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to us.
–Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617)
God’s got an endless bank account of grace, and we settle for pocket-change.
–A Friend of and Quoted by Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
There is nothing so great or ideally beautiful as the action of God in the human soul. If we knew how to discern it in ourselves, our lives would be transformed. If we could see it in others we would love even more him who is always in our midst, who acts in us, and who works marvels – these spiritual renewals that we shall understand only in eternity.
–Elisabeth Leseur (1866-1914)
Human weakness cannot upset the plans of divine omnipotence. A divine master-builder can work even with falling stones.
–Michael Von Faulhaber (1869-1952)
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
— Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)
I have done nothing but open windows- God has done all the rest.
–Frank Laubach (1884-1970)
