~ GRACE ~
GRACE IS DOING FOR ANOTHER BEING KINDNESSES he dosen't deserve, hasn't earned, could not ask for, and can't repay. Its main facets are beauty, kindness, gratitude, charm, favour, and thankfulness. Grace offer man what he cannot do for himself. The unwritten creed of many is that God is under obligation to them, but grace suggests that we are under obligation to God. To live in that conciousness is to live by grace. Living by grace is costly; it means sharing. It has no meaning apart from a spirit of self-sacrifice that prompts the soul to think more of giving than of receiving, of caring for others rather than for one's self.
-PAUL S. MCELROY, QUIET THOUGHTS,
PETER PAUPER PRESS
~ GOD ~
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY IN MAN'S THINKING IS that the world is good. The universe has goodnees in its heart and God is on the side of good. Existence is life with a moral core. If you believe that God is good and that He created a universe in which the devil can't win, then you can live in peace and happiness.
-E. HOWARD CALLAHAN
~ LOVE ~
LOVE NEVER FAILS: BUT WHETHER THERE ARE prophecies, they will fail; whether there be tougues, they will cease; whether there be knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child. I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly, but then face to face. Now i know in part; but then I shall know just as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love.
1 COR. 13:8-13