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.
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
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