Quotes that I refer to in my letter

three great quotes on grace...


The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.Frederick Buechner, minister and author, 20th century

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself, which makes this void. --   Simone Weil, 20th century

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.
Thomas Merton, monk, author, 20th century


“All is an Ocean. All flows and connects so powerfully that if, in this life, you manage to become more gracious by even a drop, it is better for every bird, child, and animal your life touches than you will ever know.”
--- “The Brothers Karamazov,” Dostoyevsky.