Jacques Servais

“[T]he fact that we are going to die marks our life so strongly that every attempt—or temptation—to escape it destroys our life from within.”

“Grace is not external to created being as love.”

“The primacy of the order of grace, of God’s own free initiative, far from evacuating human freedom, in fact demands it to the highest degree.”

“The Church, [many of the Fathers] say, continues to live by the pardon that transforms her from a harlot into a holy Bride.”

“Gospel obedience, which is the interior form of the counsels, because it is the essential and decisive act of the gift of self, in effect conforms the consecrated person to the obedience of Christ who redeems the world.”

"The new Adam wanted to associate the new Eve to himself from the beginning, raising her 'yes' to the rank of a co-constituent of the Incarnation."