grace

The nativity mystery __onceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary_, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his __limbing down of God_ is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

In calmness and confidence, thy strength manifest.

The strength within you, divine soul, can survive any situation.

May you find grace to do what needs to be done.

May you find strength for your daily work.

The Lord gives strength for every good deeds.

The glory of youth is the grace of strength.

If your altar is not active, your voice will not be strong

Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.

The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength.

With grace, we find the strength to reach the goal.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God__ grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.