He kindles and re-kindles the fire of Grace.

“One by one the passions awake, prowl around and sniff at the object of their covetousness; they are attacking the poor undecided souls from the back and he is done for. How often has he got to be hurled into the ditch, to be stifled by the mud, to grasp at the edges and arise to the light again, to feel his hands give way and return again to the darkness, before he finally submits to the law of the spiritual life- the least understood law in the world and the one that repels him most though without it he cannot attain the grace of perseverance. What is required is the renunciation of the ego, and this expressed perfectly in the phrase of Pascal: ‘Entire and sweet renunciation. Absolute submission to Jesus Christ and to my spiritual director.’

People may laugh and scoff at you for being unworthy of the title of free man and for having to submit yourself to a master…. But this enslavement is really a miraculous liberation, for even when you were free you spent the whole time forging chains for yourself and putting them on, riveting them tighter and tighter each moment. During the years when you thought you were free you submitted like and ox to the yoke of your countless hereditary ills. From the hour of your birth not one of your crimes has failed to go on living, has failed to imprison you more and more every day, has failed to beget other crimes. The Man you submit yourself to does not want you to be free to be a slave: he breaks the circle of your fetters, and, against you half-extinguised and still-smouldering desires, He kindles and re-kindles the fire of Grace.” Fracois Mauriac

"And from his (Christ) fullness we have all received, grace upon grace." John 1:16