Q. : Why do we receive this blessing of the grace of God?

A. : Everything belonging to the earth costs us, more or less.  We purchase it.  And there is only one thing which does not cost  It does not cost because we can never pay its price, and that is the grace of God.  We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits or virtues, nothing.  For what does our goodness amount to?  Our life-long goodness is nothing more than a drop of water compared with the sea.  We as human beings are too poor to pay for the grace of God.in order to purchase it.  It is only given to us, for God is love.  What do we expect from love?  Grace.

Q. : Will you give a definition of what is the grace of God?

A. : Grace of God is the love of God manifesting in innumerable blessings, blessings which are known and unknown to us.  Human beings live on earth, as I have already said, mostly unaware of all the privileges of life, and so are unthankful to the giver of them.  In order to see the grace of God, one must open one’s eyes, raising one’s head from the little world that we make around ourselves.  And to see up and down, right and left, before and behind, the grace of God reaching us from everywhere in abundance.  If we try to thank, we might thank for thousands of years and it will never be enough.  But when one sees in one’s own little shell, one does not find the Grace of God  What one finds is miseries, troubles, difficulties, injustice, hard-heartedness, coldness of the world, all ugliness from everywhere.  Of course, naturally, when a person looks down, one sees mud.  When one looks up, one sees beautiful stars and planets.  It only depends which way we look; do we look upwards or downwards?