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Notable quotes

“Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.”
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (1265–1274), I, q. 1, art. 8, ad 4
“Let grace and goodness be the principal lodestone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.”
— Thomas Fuller, in The Holy State and the Prophane State (1642), this has sometimes been misattributed to John Dryden, as early as its occurrence in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards
“Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
— William Hazlitt, in "On Manner", The Examiner (August 27, 1815); reprinted in The Round Table‎ (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1817), p. 120
“All our life is in three: in the first we have our Being, in the second we have our Increasing, and in the third we have our Fulfilling: the first is Nature, the second is Mercy, and the third is Grace.”
— Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 58
“Grace […] is a participation in the Divine Nature.”
— Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married (1951), Ch. 2
“The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.”
— Horace and James Smith, Punch's Holiday

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