Grace is Rooted in Us

Grace is constantly present, and is rooted
in us, and worked into us like leaven, from
our earliest years, until the thing thus
present becomes fixed in a person like a
natural endowment, as if it were one substance
with the person. But, for one's own good,
it manages one in many different ways, after
its own pleasure."

- Pseudo-Macarius, "Homily I," 5th C -