A Quote for the Day

  Grace brings us beyond our natural strength.

Encountering oppositions and criticisms can mean that we have at last taken a stand worthy of our gifts. But what we need to be careful about in facing the strong winds in our lives is the temptation to forget that we stood strong and tall against the elements not on our own strength but through the grace of God that works in us. Forgetting this truth will make the triumph against the wind as meaningless as our fall before it. For either way does not make us closer to the God who loves us endlessly.

Passions are designed to wake up mankind to its enormous strength. Their sometimes blinding strength demand that man need to be stronger in order to tame passions. Should he let his passions rule over him, his life will be wasted in servility to his most basic of instincts. Should he take the challenge to demand submission from his passions, he will learn what being a child of God is all about. [ Passion Rules Reason by Deviant Art]