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beauty, degrees of grace, divine nature, Frederick William Faber, grace, natural gifts, participation, power, resisting sin, St. Michael, Strength, wisdom
From our Father in God, Frederick William Faber
To receive (this is what the Theologians tell us) all the natural gifts and ornaments of St. Michael -his power, strength, wisdom, beauty, and all the rest- would be nothing compared to one additional degree of grace, such as we get a score of if we resist an angry thought for a quarter of an hour; for grace is a participation in the divine nature.
All For Jesus, or The Wonders of Divine Love / Frederick William Faber. Rockford, ILL: TAN Books and Publishers. 1991. x, 308p. [This present edition by TAN Books and Publishers was retypeset from the 23rd American Edition published by John Murphy & Co., 182 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland, around 1854 “with the corrections and sanction of the author”] : Chapter 1 “The Interests of Jesus”, p15-16
The Walsingham Way 