Grace is a wonderful gift from God. It is not earned but given to us in love. When we become aware that God is with us, guiding us…everything changes. Grace is the present of God’ presence! God is not a distant God. He created us and loves us.
Let’s turn to the saints to find out how they felt about grace.
1. Let us not be afraid to suffer for the truth; for if we suffer for the truth, we shall find grace.
St. Hyacinth
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2. Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases.
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3. How great it is to possess Divine Grace, How beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights!
4. The Grace of God does not find men fit for salvation, but makes them so.
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5. If only we would learn how great it is to possess Divine Grace and how many riches it has within itself, how many joys and delights. We would devote all our concern to winning for ourselves pains and aflictions in order to attain the unfathomable treasure of grace.
6. I am where God wills me to be. I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me. His grace sanctifies me. His mercy encompasses me. His joy sustains me and all will be well with me.
7. The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic God’s giving, by grace, through faith and this is not of ourselves.
8. Be attentive to the voice of grace.
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9. Grace is like the sun. It shines on all, but only those who open their eyes and look up receive the light. The soul must be willing and awake, or the light passes by unnoticed.
10. In trial, God grants His grace to those who trust in Him.
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11. Let every journey be a prayer, and every road a path of grace.
12. Lord, give me the grace to work for the things I pray for.
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13. The greatest grace God can give someone is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers…and then sustain him with His grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.
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14. Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.
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15. Rich is the mercy of our God, and abundantly does He bestow grace upon grace on those who love Him.
16. What is true in the order of nature is true in the order of super-nature or grace. Only those who use the graces they are given are given more.
17. If I am in God’s good grace, may He.keep me there. If I am not, may He put me there.
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18. To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.
19. Be good, love the Lord, pray for those who do not know Him. What a grace it is to know God!
20. He who knows how to forgive, prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart.
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21. Let us ask three graces of Jesus, to avoid Purgatory, to learn from Purgatory, to empty Purgatory.
22. 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 it’s strength in faith.
I also understood that God’s love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace, as it does in the loftiest soul.
24. The more I reflect on the graces I have received,the more they astonish me and make me tremble.
25. Take, O Lord and receive my liberty, my memory, my whole understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed acording to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.
