Few persons comprehend what God would effect in their souls if they gave themselves up entirely into his hands and allowed his grace to act within them. The rough and shapeless trunk of a tree, if it were capable of thought, could never believe that it might be formed into a statue, a miracle of sculpture; neither would it place itself under the hands of the sculptor, who by the knowledge of his art, judges what he can form it into. Thus many persons, who hardly live as Christians, are far from realizing that they might become great saints, if they allowed themselves to be molded by the grace of God, and did not resist his beneficent influence.
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Maxims of Ignatius
