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  • No created nature, therefore, can suffice as the principle of an action which merits eternal life, unless there is added to it a supernatural gift, which we call grace.

    Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

  • There is another quality of faith which I call grace.

    Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D. with a Short History of the C.M.E. Church in America and of Methodism 1916

  • If the mind is manifested in such a way through the sensuous nature subject to its empire that it executes its behests with the most faithful exactitude, or expresses its sentiments in the most perfectly speaking manner, without going in the least against that which the aesthetic sense demands from it as a phenomenon, then we shall see produced that which we call grace.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • If the mind is manifested in such a way through the sensuous nature subject to its empire that it executes its behests with the most faithful exactitude, or expresses its sentiments in the most perfectly speaking manner, without going in the least against that which the aesthetic sense demands from it as a phenomenon, then we shall see produced that which we call grace.

    Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • ROBERTS: She really lived her life in a way that truly defined the word grace.

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2006 2006

  • It goes without saying that the requirements of good morals are a heavy burden for the natural man, that is, for man left, in the midst of seductions and allurements, to the purely human resources of his own unaided wit and strength; so heavy a burden is this, in fact, that according to Catholic doctrine, it cannot be borne without assistance from on high, the which assistance we call grace.

    Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

  • It would become an epic classic on the very definition of the word grace.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • To hear that there really is something that we call grace.

    la nouvelle théologie 2009

  • In my personal scripture study, I often insert the term "enabling power" whenever I encounter the word grace.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Next to the statue of Mary, inside a labyrinth of daisies, daffodils, tulips and roses is a stone engraved with the word grace.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Amanda Mueller, TruthOut.org 2009

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