Grace is to help…
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
God often gives…
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
By vehement desire…
The grace of contemplation is granted only in response to a longing an importunate (burning) desire: Nevertheless, God will not present Himself, even in passing, to every soul; but only to that soul which is shown, by great devotion, vehement desire, and tender affection, to be His bride, and to be worthy that the Word in all His beauty should visit her as a Bridegroom.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Grace and free will…
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Goodness and mercy of God…
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God’s wisdom, nor our infirmity God’s omnipotence.
— Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
My own sin…
My own sin will not hinder the working of God’s goodness.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
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