Virtue not built on God resonates with falsity that is encumbered with pride. Holiness is not about achieving perfection in virtue here on earth but about constantly fighting obstacles before it by allowing God’s will to be our guide.

Virtue not built on God resonates with falsity that is encumbered with pride. Holiness is not about achieving perfection in virtue here on earth but about constantly fighting obstacles before it by allowing God’s will to be our guide.
No man can of himself even attempt to reach God. It is the grace of God that he has created man as an embodiment of desire for God; desire for God which must become the theological virtue of hope to attain the Divine One.