Quotes about Grace

God is the eternal Father of Jesus Christ. And God is Father of those who live in Jesus Christ, through baptism.

The effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive. ~

Thus, for Aquinas, the New Law goes beyond the Sermon on the Mount and the other teachings of Jesus. It is nothing less than divine grace—divine life and power. Grace is the New Law that enables us to keep the commandments in a way that we as children of Adam couldn't on our own.

What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God.

Sainthood does not mean sinlessness.

The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.

God has loved us first, and he has made us for himself. He "desires" our love, and so he leaves us free, for true love cannot be coerced.

Once we have embraced sin in this way and rejected our covenant with God, only a calamity can save us.

Our identification with Christ is a permanent thing; our communion with Christ is as constant as the state of grace in our souls. You and I are the Church; that is our

Saint Paul (whom I had thought of as the first Luther) taught in Romans, Galatians and elsewhere that justification was more than a legal decree; it established us in Christ as God's children by grace alone. In fact, I discovered that nowhere did Saint Paul ever teach that we were justified by faith alone! Sola fide was unscriptural!

Why has God done the things that he has done in history? One word: Love.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.