gratia

_universalis gratia seria et efficax_, or _sola gratia_.

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

Before the Council of Trent, the Schoolmen seldom used the term gratia actualis, preferring auxilium speciale, motio divina, and similar designations; nor did they formally distinguish actual grace from sanctifying grace.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Link shamelessly swiped from the sidebar at exempli gratia, which is by the way a fine new-ish blog I've been reading for a month or so.

languagehat.com: TYPOGRAPHICA. 2004

This God works in us by that grace which Austin and the schoolmen call gratia operans, because it worketh in us without us, the will being merely moved and passive therein.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Now since one and the same grace may in one instance be efficacious, and in another inefficacious, it follows that the so-called gratia efficax must be conceived according to its essence as efficax ab extrinsico.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Consistently then with this terminology, the grace which is merely sufficient must be called gratia incongrua, i.e. a grace which has not a congruity with the circumstances, and is therefore inefficacious.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

(generally called gratia inspirationis) plays not only the most important, but an indispensable, part, for no works of salvation are even thinkable without operations of the will.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

It all started with the saga of the ex-gratia which is yet to end.

The Shame in Ghana politics 2009

If grace was the goal, Suelo told himself, then it had to be grace in the classical sense, from the Latin gratia, meaning favor-and also, free.

Anarchist news dot org - Comments 2010

In the English language, the word comes from the Latin "gratia," which means "pleasing."

unknown title 2009