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The Grace is always there ready to act but you must let it work and not resist its action. The one condition required is faith. <ref>https://incanateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p8</ref>
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"At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad to worse, it is then that we must make a supreme act of faith and know that the Grace will never fail us." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/comments-on-new-year-messages#p9</ref>
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The Grace will never fail us―such is the faith we must keep constantly in our heart. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p15</ref>
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...even if one has no knowledge at all but has trust in the divine Grace, if one has the faith that there is something in the world like the divine Grace, and that this something can answer a prayer, an aspiration, an invocation, then, after making one's mental formation, if one offers it to the Grace and puts one's trust in it, asks it to intervene and has the faith that it will intervene, then indeed one has a chance of success. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p24</ref>
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Put your trust in the grace of the One and Divine which has already touched you and opened its door and rely on it for all that is to come.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-value-of-experiences#p7</ref>
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Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It is like a door suddenly opening upon an eternal truth, through which we can see it, almost touch it.
As in everything else in the ascent of humanity, there is the necessity—especially at the beginning—of personal effort. It is possible that in some exceptional circumstances, for reasons which completely elude our intelligence, faith may come almost accidentally, quite unexpectedly, almost without ever having been solicited, but most frequently it is an answer to a yearning, a need, an aspiration, something in the being that is seeking and longing, even though not in a very conscious and systematic way. But in any case, when faith has been granted, when one has had this sudden inner illumination, in order to preserve it constantly in the active consciousness individual effort is altogether indispensable. One must ''hold on'' to one's faith, ''will'' one's faith; one must seek it, cultivate it, protect it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p4,p5</ref>
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If one has within him faith in the divine grace, that the divine grace is watching over him, and that no matter what happens the divine grace is there, watching over him, one may keep this faith all one's life and always; and with this one can pass through all dangers, face all difficulties, and nothing stirs, for you have the faith and the divine grace is with you. It is an infinitely stronger, more conscious, more lasting force which does not depend upon the conditions of your physical build, does not depend upon anything except the divine grace alone, and hence it leans on the Truth and nothing can shake it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/7-october-1953#p26</ref>
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It is when all seems lost that all can be saved. When you have lost confidence in your personal power, then you should have faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p38</ref>
<center>~</center>What is necessary is not to listen to what resists, not to believe what contradicts—to have trust, a real trust, a confidence which makes you give yourself fully without calculating, without bargaining. Trust! The trust that says, "Do this, do this for me, I leave it to You."<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/12-november-1958#p17</ref><center>~</center>
Have an absolute trust in the Grace, set aside your little personality and allow the Grace to act; it will make you do what is needed and everything will be all right. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p27</ref>
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It is in proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace can act for us and help. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p4</ref>
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The Grace and the help are always there for all who aspire for them and their power is limitless when received with faith and confidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p7</ref>
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It is only by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an unshakable confidence and faith in the Divine Grace that you will allow circumstances to be as good as they can be. ''The very best happens always'' to those who have put their entire trust in the Divine and in the Divine alone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p1</ref>
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For the Grace to have a perfect and total result of its action, the faith must be ''total and perfect.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p10</ref>