If there is question of the habit of faith, it itself is increased at every increase of sanctifying grace (see 745).
The loss is caused by the contrary of the virtue: faith is lost by disbelief, hope by despair; charity and the moral virtues are lost by any mortal sin, for they are built on sanctifying grace, which mortal sin destroys.
But by sanctifying grace man is born spiritually into a son of God according to John 1:13: "(who) are born of God.
As sanctifying grace is ordained to meritorious acts both interior and exterior, so likewise gratuitous grace is ordained to certain exterior acts manifestive of the faith, as the working of miracles, and the like.
But by each sacrament of the New Law man becomes the recipient of sanctifying grace, as stated above (Q.
The school of Occam here prepared the way for him by its views on sanctifying grace and “acceptation” (imputation).
This sin is called mortal because it deprives us of spiritual life, which is sanctifying grace, and brings everlasting death and damnation on the soul.
Sanctifying grace is that grace which makes the soul holy and pleasing to God.
Which are the Sacraments that increase sanctifying grace in our soul?
Which are the Sacraments that give sanctifying grace?
But the divine person is the cause why the gift of sanctifying grace is possessed, and not conversely, according to Rom.
Whether the Invisible Mission of the Divine Person Is Only According to the Gift of Sanctifying Grace?
Objection 1: It would seem that the invisible mission of the divine person is not only according to the gift of sanctifying grace.
He refuses pardon to the repentant sinner, or that He does not turn sinners to Himself by sanctifying grace.
For one cannot have charity without sanctifying grace.
Without sin no one falls from a state of sanctifying grace, for it turns man away from his due end by making him place his end in something undue: so that his appetite does not cleave chiefly to the true final good, but to some apparent good.
One is the fact that it is a sacrament, and in this respect it is like the other effects of sanctifying grace.
Sacramental grace is sanctifying grace--given in the Sacraments--which contains for us a right to actual graces when we need them.
The Apostle is speaking of the Happiness of Hope, which is bestowed on us by sanctifying grace, which is not given on account of previous works.
Every truth by whomsoever spoken is from the Holy Ghost as bestowing the natural light, and moving us to understand and speak the truth, but not as dwelling in us by sanctifying grace, or as bestowing any habitual gift superadded to nature.
The Genesis Of Sanctifying Grace, Or The Process Of Justification Section 1.
In this state there is open to all the gift of sanctifying grace which is the possession of God now, and in the future will unfold into the capacity of the complete participation of the life of heaven.
This varying description of the effect of baptism means that the soul of the child has become a partaker of sanctifying grace, the grace of union with God.
The divine presence, then, of God in the soul, effected by sanctifying grace, makes the soul more worthy a temple, more fit a home.
It is clear, then, also, why in the catechism grace is called the supernatural life of the soul, and why mortal sin is called the death of the soul, since it kills the soul by depriving it of sanctifying grace.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sanctifying grace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
