The Lord God grants His graces in two ways: by inspiration and by enlightenment. If we ask God for a grace, He will give it to us; but let us be willing to accept it. And in order to accept it, self denial is needed. Love does not consist in words or feelings, but in deeds… Jesus in me makes up for all my deficiencies. His grace operates without ceasing.
–Saint Faustina (1905-1938)
From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others.
–Saint John Paul II (1920-2005)
There is no limit to the ways in which God may make himself known. At every turn in our lives there can be a meeting place with God. How our hearts should sing with joy and thanksgiving. We have only to want him now at this moment — at any moment in our lives — and he is there, wanting us, longing to welcome us, to forgive us all that has gone before that has separated us from him.
–Mother Frances Dominica (1942-
It is true that it is by God’s grace that we are what we are and by God’s grace we have been preserved from countless calamities of our own making. Even though we fall short of our own hopes and expectations, it is by God’s grace that we are what we are. God has a plan for us, of which we have only the sketchiest knowledge. Let us allow God to get on with the work and not delay its outcome either by taking credit for what meets with our approval or by becoming downcast when we are plunged into the mystery of our own resistance.
–Michael Casey (1942-
I knew nothing. I was nothing. For this reason God picked me out.
–Saint Catherine Laboure (1806-1876)
Grace is constantly present, and is rooted in us, and worked into us like leaven, from our earliest years, until the thing thus present becomes fixed in a person like a natural endowment, as if it were one substance with the person. But, for one’s own good, it manages one in many different ways, after its own pleasure.
–Pseudo-Macarius (Fifth Century)
