Grace is the peace of friendship with God
"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, with God. Grace is the peace
of friendship with God – and if it does not necessarily bring us a ‘felt’
peace, it nevertheless gives us every reason to be at peace, if we could only
understand and appreciate what it means.
Grace means that there is no
opposition between man and God, and that man is able to be sufficiently
united within himself to live without opposition to God. Grace is friendship with God. And more – it is sonship. It makes us the ‘beloved sons’ of God in whom
He is ‘well pleased.’”
Thomas
Merton, New Man
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