If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men (St. Rose of Lima).
And if by grace, then is it no
more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works,
then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. (Romans 11:6)