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.
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The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.
What people don’t realise is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. It is much harder to believe than not to believe.
Mystery isn’t something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
The truth doesn’t change according to our ability to stomach it.