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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