Usually grace begins by illuminating the soul with a deep awareness, with its own light. Diodicus (5th Century) |
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![]() O Christian soul! recognize your dignity! Know that as a Christian you surpass the angels not only in nature but also in grace! St. Leo (390-461
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![]() Grace is necessary to salvation, free will is equally so; but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it. St. Bernard (1150) |
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![]() Grace is sufficient to enable us to be accounted entirely and completely righteous in God's sight. Martin Luther (1522 |
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![]() Grace is so gracious and so graciously seizes on our hearts to draw them, that it no way offends the liberty of our will. St. Francis of Sales (1607 |
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
mag·nan·i·mous adjective. 1. Courageously noble in mind and heart. 2.
Generous in forgiving; eschewing resentment or revenge; unselfish.
Those people were of an old-fashioned and ridiculous kind. But there was
another kind of people- real people, to which they all belonged, and here the chief thing
was to be elegant, magnanimous, daring, gay,
and to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else
ANNA KARENINA
Leo Tolstoy
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." Joseph Addison |
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