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Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed. F.F. Bruce

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. John Dryden Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Gustav Jung

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. The Bible, Ephesians 2:8, 9

We must not suppose that if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world. C.S. Lewis

Salvation is wholly of grace, not only undeserved but undesired by us until God is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need of it. And then we find everything prepared that our wants require or our wishes conceive; yea, that He has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask or think. … Continue reading “SALVATION
AND GRACE ALONE”

To me, to whom God hath revealed his Son, in a Gospel, by a Church, there can be no way of salvation, but by applying that Son of God, by that Gospel, in that Church. John Donne

We hanged our harps upon the willows. The Bible, Psalm 137:2 kjv Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow; just seek goodness in others, love more persons more; love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will … Continue reading “SADNESS”

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce The saint is a saint because he received the Holy Spirit, who took up his abode with him and inwardly married himself to the soul. Abraham Kuyper Every saint is a pattern; but no saint is a pattern of everything. Henri de Tourville What is the … Continue reading “SAINT”

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,–although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. Augustine of Hippo

[The following rule is attributed to St Columba, 521–597, and reflects the spirit of early Irish monasticism.] Be alone in a separate place near a chief city, if thy conscience is not prepared to be in common with the crowd. Be always single-minded in your imitation of Christ and the Evangelists. Whatsoever little or much … Continue reading “RULE
OF FAITH”