The compensation that Nureyev offers, in his art but also in his general élan, is all the sweeter because it is ephemeral, and the characters in "Dancer" are forever attempting to calculate the exchange; how can the "momentary lightness" he bestows — grace in both senses of the word — ever be weighed against all that he has taken?
In the Pancaratras, for example, "the five functions associated with God's oversight of the world," namely, creation, preservation, destruction, and "obscuration" and "favoring" (roughly, withholding and bestowing grace) are sometimes ascribed to Vishnu and sometimes to Lakshmi (Kumar, 23f).
Taken together, these assertions suggest that the soul bestows grace or beauty on the body, and that those qualities then 'proceed' from the body as well as from the soul.
This poetic lady bestows grace upon its community.
In the magnificence of their humility, the kings borrowed this notion from a Hindu one that says a deity, in revealing himself, bestows grace upon his followers, who in turn are made receptive to this grace by seeing him.
As a poem, it "restates Smart's certainty that the long-suffering God will eventually bestow his grace upon the barren human soul" as it reads: Thus man goes on from year to year, And bears no fruit at all; But gracious God, still unsevere, Bids show'rs of blessing fall.
Dr. Gloster bestowed his grace on me.
Throughout his writings, Lopez returns to the idea that natural landscapes are capable of bestowing a grace upon those who pass through them.
"The way of those on whom you have bestowed your grace, not the way of those who earn your anger nor those who went astray".
In the West the church is viewed in terms of mediation (for the bestowing of grace) and authority (for guaranteeing security in doctrine); in the East the church is regarded as a communion in which God and the individual meet once again and a personal experience of divine life becomes possible.
