Its theme– the operation
Its theme– the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters– was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it. Evelyn Waugh
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Its theme– the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters– was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it. Evelyn Waugh
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship – a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. Elizabeth Gilbert
And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love, according to our necessities, states, conditions. And as we are all various and different from one another, more or less, so the law by the immediate operation of divine grace in the soul, … Read more
We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit. Elder Paisios … Read more
As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation. Francois Fenelon
I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. … Read more
With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One’s very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes increasingly abhorrent. A resolve to abandon and forsake the sin and to repair, as fully as one possibly can, the damage he or she has caused now forms in that … Read more
Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace. Charles Spurgeon
When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into … Read more
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace. Brother Lawrence