Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.
Interpretation
A state of grace is essential for salvation at death, without which one cannot achieve divine happiness.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being in a state of grace—meaning a state of being free from sin and in a right relationship with God—at the critical moment of death. The implication is that without this grace, one cannot attain salvation or the ultimate joy of experiencing God, known as the beatific vision, which is central to Christian belief about the afterlife.
In practice
In a funeral speech, one might reflect on the importance of living in grace for a peaceful passing.
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
To live without risk is to risk not living.
It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.
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