Sentence examples for achieved grace from inspiring English sources

Calais says that he was "invited to retreats and recollections, and began speaking about Charlene, how she achieved grace before she died" and about the need for money to build a new church in the parish.

Larry gets under the skins of four ordinary people trying to achieve grace and redemption during one summer of infidelity.

This aspiration is found everywhere in McIlvanney's fiction, as ordinary men and women (but mainly men) try to achieve grace and dignity despite the challenges thrown at them by life.

But as well as being a powerfully lucid expression of filial love and faith, it is the story of how two men achieve grace through marriage — one unexpectedly late in life, the other through an illegal union with a black woman from Tennessee.

He believed that grace is the supreme quest of art, but the painter achieves grace only if he manages to solve the most complex problems with obvious ease.

We quietly sat in the oak pews visualizing Reverend Maclean preaching from the pulpit on man's journey to achieve grace through art.

While catering to the European appetite for natural history, they sometimes achieved literary grace.

James McAuley, always a meditative poet, achieved both grace and humanity in the moving clarity of his later verse (for example, in Music Late at Night [1976]).

James McAuley, always a meditative poet, achieved both grace and humanity in the moving clarity of his later verse (for example, in Music Late at Night ).

Through his love for her the knight achieves spiritual grace.

However, the sweep of the narrative gradually overcomes these missteps, and as the various searches for revenge or redemption get under way the writing achieves unforced grace and power.