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Intrusions of grace…

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

— Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose  <link>

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>