* God sometimes wills or allows things and events to happen that we do not want and do not understand, but which in the end will be of great benefit to us and to others. Each time we make that act of identification of our will with God's we shall have taken an important step forward in the virtue of humility.
* Every contrite confession is a drawing nearer to the holiness of God, a rediscovery of one's true identity, which has been upset and disturbed by sin, a liberation in the very depth of one's self and thus a regaining of lost joy ...
* Jesus always hears us, even when it seems that he keeps silent. Perhaps it is then that he listens to us most attentively. Perhaps he is urging us on -- with this apparent silence -- to make sure we have the right disposition for the miracle to take place ...
* (Quoting JPII) Sin is always a personal act, since it is an act of freedom on the part of the individual person ... To unload man of this responsibility would be to deny the person's dignity and freedom, which are manifested -- even though in a negative and disastrous way -- also in this responsibility for sin committed. Hence, there is nothing so personal and untransferable in each individual as merit for virtue or responsibility for sin. ...
... there is no sin, not even the most intimate and secret one, the most strictly individual one, that exclusively concerns the person committing it. With greater or less violence, with greater or less harm, every sin has repercussions on the entire ecclesial body and the whole human family.
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Elijah has the same knight armor. We call it the "Armor of God"
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