Sentence examples for means of grace from inspiring English sources
noun
A means by which God gives grace, usually considered to include both word and sacrament, and often other ways as well
The sacraments of the Church began to acquire their crucial significance as means of grace necessary for salvation only after the Lateran Council.
Preaching was viewed as the means of grace whereby individuals were encouraged to repent and accept the grace of God through faith in Christ, just as the sermon was used to shape the community and give guidance.
We're inside Lewis's bookish mind, an archaic universe of extremes -- profound evil, inexpressible sweetness and heartstopping dramas of the passage from the one to the other by means of grace.
"Can a gay couple be a means of grace to one another?" and "Does the archbishop of Canterbury have oral sex?" Curiously, the second question remains unanswered, and quite properly unasked in public, too.
The term sacrament has become a convenient expression for a sign or symbol of a sacred thing, occasion, or event imparting spiritual benefits to participants; and such signs or symbols have been associated with eating, drinking, lustration (ceremonial purification), nuptial intercourse, or ritual techniques regarded as "means of grace" and pledges of a covenant relationship with the sacred order.
He was also a poet, though not a very good one: From my years young in days of youth, God did make known to me his truth, And call'd me from my native place For to enjoy the means of grace.
Just like we lift the bread and the wine up at communion, we lift these experiences up to God and pray that God will change these experiences into means of blessing and grace for people around us.
For some this accent on preaching meant a downgrading of the Lord's Supper; for others there was to be a parity, with the sacrament providing another means of conveying grace.
His rejection of the sacraments as means of obtaining grace and as forms of intervention between the soul and God underlay the deepened conception of other Reformation leaders such as Bullinger, Pietro Martire Vermigli, and John Calvin.
She recommends that those who can afford it should have their children taught dancing from a young age, as a means of acquiring grace, but she also observes that in order for the lessons to be effective they should be a pastime, not a task.
And they don't, but that doesn't mean moments of grace don't occur along the way.
