A Quote for the Day

  Grace brings us beyond our natural strength.

There is a natural sweetness in everyone, that goodness in our nature that came to us from God with our birth. It just happened that a lot of us let the bitterness in life change their nature slowly as they grow old. Will that natural sweetness be restored? We don't know. Maybe when we learn to remove that bitterness from our heart. Maybe when we come to have a full grip again on who we are.

In love there is no middle state. Either you love or you do not. Loving a little simply means not loving so much. Thank God our nature is so imperfect we can only love imperfectly, even the best of our love. And the Father knows this perfectly enough. So the Perfect Lover looks at the imperfect ones with so much compassion and burning love.

You cannot change the nature of things. The most important difference between man and animal is that man can strive to change his natural inclinations through commitment, assisted by divine grace. A cat who knows only but steal food from your table seldom change no matter what punishment you bring into it. But a wayward person can change the course of his life if he realized he followed the wrong path, and seek God's graces for the change. Beyond that the nature of things stay the way they are.