true and real Grace

GOD Almighty

This post is for the Jew, orthodox/messianic and the gentile catholic/protestant alike. It has put me in a right perspective/humility concerning Divine, Holy, Almighty God.

THE SAYINGS OF THE DESERT FATHERS (the alphabetical collection) Translated by
Benedica Ward and Foreword by Metropolitan Anthony

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--FOREWORD, --2nd para.

Modern man seeks mainly for 'experience'--putting himself at the center of things he wishes to make them subservient to this aim; too often, even God becomes the source from which the highest experience flows, instead of being Him Whom we adore, worship and are prepared to serve, whatever the cost to us. Such an attitude was unknown to the Desert, moreover, the Desert repudiated it as sacrilegious: the experiential knowledge which God in His Infinite Love and condescension gives to those who seek Him with their whole heart is always a gift; its essential, abiding quality is its gratuity: it is an act of Divine Love and cannot therefore be deserved,