Grace is always present. You imagine it is somewhere high in the sky,
far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart.
Grace is the Self. . . .You are never out of its operation.
-~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
Grace is a manifestation of the cosmic free will in operation.
It can alter the course of events in a mysterious manner
through its own unknown laws, which are superior to
all natural laws, and can modify the latter by interaction.
It is the most powerful force in the universe.
It descends and acts only when it is invoked
by total self- surrender.
It acts from within, because God resides in the Heart
of all beings. Its whisper can be heard only in a mind
purified by self-surrender and prayer.
Rationalists laugh at it, and atheists scorn it, but it exists.
It is a descent of God into the soul’s zone of awareness.
It is a visitation of force unexpected and unpredictable.
It is a voice spoken out of cosmic silence -
It is ‘Cosmic Will which can perform
authentic miracles under its own laws’.
~ D.C. Desai
from Divine Grace Through Total Self-Surrender
art: from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
with thanks to love is a place
