“Through grace, the aid of the Holy Spirit becomes natural to us, because Sanctifying Grace clothes us with a heavenly nature. It is given as a staff in our hand that will never be taken away from us, unless we ourselves cast it away. It surrounds us always as the light of the sun surrounds our eye and never withdraws itself from us, except when we close our eyes or tear them out. It knocks continually at the door of our heart in order to stir us on to good; it speaks to us in order to lead us to all truth; it inclines us to all good and restrains us and holds us back from sin; it strengthens us in the hour of danger and holds us upright when we are about to stagger and fall. That which Moses sang of Israel holds also in regard to us: ‘He led him about and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye. As the eagle, enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and has taken him and carried him on his shoulders’ (Deut. 32:10–11).”
~Matthias Scheeben
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