"Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with the capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for  reconciliation and forgiveness." Pope Benedict XVI

God does not look down on us when we fall. Rather, he sees our need for the grace to get up and return to him. Even if we fall again and again, God's merciful love for us reaches out to us again and again. Otherwise, we would stay down and remain alienated from him. It is when we respond to these graces that we begin to grow in holiness. When we share in God's life of love we grow in holiness. It is like a valve. The more open it is, the greater the flow of water. The reservoir of holiness is unlimited. The amount we share in depends on our openness to the turns of the valve. Each time we repent, each time we show love, each time we forgive, each time we obey the will of God, we are turning the valve more open and the flow becomes greater, as we share in God's life.