Many Christians, as they lose their supernatural outlook, and hence the real influence of grace on their lives, seem to think that the ideal proposed by Christ needs to be modified and adapted if ordinary people of our day and age are to be able to live it….They allow themselves to be influenced by the atmosphere of permissiveness and sensuality surrounding them…We must teach people through our own lives…that the christian virtues can be lived in the midst of all honest undertakings, and that being understanding towards the defects and errors of others is not the same as lowering our own standards and sitting loose to the demands made by the Gospels.1
- Fernandez, In Conversation with God, Volume 2 Page 137 ↩︎