A Chaste Marriage

Thus this wonderful union of the divine nature with human nature in the communication of grace or supernature is brought about by God’s merciful, infinite love. It is a chaste marriage. For grace, on its side, unites with nature and fructifies it without violating it; nature, as an image of God, is the undefiled, receptive soil to which grace brings the dew of heavenly energy down from heaven to revive and fructify it, and sheds on it heavenly light to adorn and warm it.

—Matthias Scheeben, Nature and Grace (1861)