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=Why Divine Grace Matters=
==Grace and Strength==
Strength, if it is spiritual, is a power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the greatest power of all is Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p14</ref>
==Grace and Justice==
It is the Divine Grace that must be prayed for―if justice were to manifest, very few would be those who could stand in front of it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p2</ref>
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The Divine Grace alone has the power to intervene and change the course of Universal Justice...Without the ceaseless intervention of Your [Divine’s] Grace, who would not often times have come under the merciless blade of the Law of Universal Justice. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p4,p7</ref>
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"Who can stand before You, O Lord, and say in all sincerity: 'I have never made a mistake'? How many times in a day we commit faults against Your work, and always Your Grace comes to efface them!'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p13</ref>
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An act carried out has always a consequence and this consequence brings along another and so on. And this is absolutely ineluctable. That is universal justice. You have a bad thought, it has a result. And that result has yet another. And you cannot escape it except through the intervention of Grace. Grace is exactly something which has the power of changing all that. But only the Grace can change it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p23</ref>
==Grace and Will==
The Divine Will works in all things—it may work out anything whatever. The Divine Grace comes in to help and save. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p1</ref>
==Grace and Karma==
Completely, the Divine Grace completely contradicts Karma; you know, It makes it melt away like butter that's put in the sun. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/3-june-1953#p24</ref>
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If you make a mistake without knowing that it is a mistake, that does not protect you, you are punished. Well, in Nature it is the same thing. If you take poison without knowing that it is poison, it will poison you all the same. Do you understand?... Unless the Grace intervenes. And as the Grace is omnipotent, it can change everything. That is what I have explained. But without the Grace there is no hope. For precisely it is ignorance that's the constant factor of mankind. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p23</ref>
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Destiny in the rigid sense applies only to the outer being so long as it lives in the Ignorance. What we call destiny is only in fact the result of the present condition of the being and the nature and energies it has accumulated in the past acting on each other and determining the present attempts and their future results. But as soon as one enters the path of spiritual life, this old predetermined destiny begins to recede. There comes in a new factor, the Divine Grace, the help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of Karma which can lift the sadhak beyond the present possibilities of his nature. One's spiritual destiny is then the divine election which ensures the future. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/fate-free-will-and-prediction#p2</ref>
==Grace and Tapasya==
I suppose it is to teach us first that grace is more effective than tapasya and, secondly, that either equanimity or a cheerful spontaneous happy self-opening is as effective, to say the least, as the grimmest wrestling for a result. But it would be dangerous to assume from that that no tapasya and no endeavour is needful—for that might very well mean inertia. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p17</ref>
The divine Grace alone shall be our support. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p55</ref>
==Grace and Knowledge==
Therefore, even if one has no knowledge at all but has trust in the divine Grace, if one has the faith that there is something in the world like the divine Grace, and that this something can answer a prayer, an aspiration, an invocation, then, after making one's mental formation, if one offers it to the Grace and puts one's trust in it, asks it to intervene and has the faith that it will intervene, then indeed one has a chance of success. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p24</ref>
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The difference between knowledge and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p12</ref>
=How to Receive Divine Grace=