Sentences with phrase «cooperate with grace»

So I don't think of Traveling Mercies as a book about religion at all, but rather as a handbook, or maybe a sort of owner's manual, for people who are trying to live faithfully: which is to say, learning to cooperate with grace — even (or especially) when real life rears its very confusing head.

Luis de Molina S.J. (1535 - 1600) and most of the Jesuits taught that although God calls all to be glorifed, his gift of grace is conditioned by an intermediate knowledge, by which God sees beforehand how individuals freely react to grace and knows infallibly in advance how they will make use of the grace that has been given and elects those who cooperate with grace for eternal glory.

How does freedom cooperate with grace?

«A vocation to be a nun comes from God's free choice of certain individuals; commitment comes from our free choice to cooperate with the graces received with His call and is the fruit of our loving self - surrender to God.»

Not exact matches

Thomas Merton: We must be ready to cooperate not only with graces that console, but with graces that humiliate us.

The reason we do not cooperate with regenerating grace before it acts upon us and in us is because we can - not.

The bottom line is that Arminians are mainly synergist (people cooperate with God, i.e. Do your best and God will do the rest), while Calvinists are monogist (everything is God's grace from beginning to end, people do have free will but only God brings them to salvation and sustains them to the end).

[6] Thomas Aquinas taught in this regard that grace restores the freedom of the will where it had been in bondage to sin, so that the person can cooperate with God's grace willingly and with joy; the mind also is freed to receive greater light and participate in God's creativity.

Back in this post from December of last year I quoted Merton: We must be ready to cooperate not only with graces that console, but with graces that humiliate us.

The quotidian effort to minimize that «gap,» which means cooperating with God's grace, is the warp and woof of the spiritual life.

Renew our prayer, asking for the grace to act wisely, charitably and to resist the temptation to cooperate in thought or action with the undermining of authentic love.