“The facts of grace are simple: grace always exists, it is always available, it is always good, and it is always victorious.… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“Grace empowers us to choose rightly in what seem to be the most choiceless of situations, but it does not, and will… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“Grace is the most powerful force in the universe. It can transcend repression, addiction, and every other internal or external power that… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“I do not understand my own behavior; I do not act as I mean to, but I do the things that I hate. Though… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“Adapting to change, then, means going through the stress of withdrawal from the old normality and finding relief when a new normality is established.” — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“The bare edge of freedom is insured and preserved inside us by God, and no matter what forces oppress us from without or within,… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“The facts of grace are simple: grace always exists, it is always available, it is always good, and it is always victorious. For me,… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“Grace empowers us to choose rightly in what seem to be the most choiceless of situations, but it does not, and will not, determine… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most human beings live only for the gratification of it. ARISTOTLE” — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“I think the greater danger is that those who think they understand the process [of overcoming our attachments] are likely to try to make… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that we do the same with our deepest longings for God. God does not always come to us… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“But they are trials and tests for our own growth, not for God to find out how good we are. God knows that we… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“Grace is the most powerful force in the universe. It can transcend repression, addiction, and every other internal or external power that seeks to… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“In the great spiritual traditions of the world, attachments are seen as any concerns that usurp our desire for love, anything that becomes more… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“adds a strong imperative to act upon what has happened, a continuing invitation in which the one who is healed is meant to participate.… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“When my supply of success at this egotistic autonomy ran out, I became depressed. And with the depression, by means of grace, came a… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“It is a good rule of thumb for spiritual directors to ask themselves, What truly constitutes our spiritual concern here? Am I really being… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“While repression stifles desire, addiction attaches desire, bonds and enslaves the energy of desire to certain specific behaviors, things, or people. These objects of… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
![“I think the greater danger is that those who think they understand the process [of overcoming our attachments] are likely to try to make it happen on their own by engaging in false austerities and love-denying self-deprivations. They will not wait for God's timing; they will rush ahead of grace. I…” quote by Gerald G. May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/134/gerald-g-may-33169_god-s-timing_i-think-the-greater-danger-is-that-those_946792.jpg)
