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The Grace of Krishna consists for him in Krishna's very lovableness, in his showing of himself to the devotee, in his call, the cry of his flute. That is enough for the heart or, if there is anything more, it is the yearning that others or all may hear the flute, see the face, feel all the beauty and rapture of this love. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p53</ref>

Krishna's Grace calls whom it wills to call without any determining reason for the choice or rejection, his mercy or his withholding or at least delaying of his mercy, or else he calls the hearts that are ready to vibrate and leap up at his call—and even there he waits till the moment has come. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p54</ref>

The Mother's grace is there always; open yourself to it in quietude and confidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p3</ref>

In her universal action the Mother acts according to the law of things—in her embodied physical action is the opportunity of a constant Grace,—it is for that that the embodiment takes place. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-universal-action-and-her-embodied-physical-action#p2</ref>

''Is the Mother's Grace always general?''

''Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace? Why does the Mother in her universal action act according to the law of things, but in her embodied physical by constant Grace?''

It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos and the law of the cosmos—transforming it by a slow evolution. The greater transformation comes from the Transcendent above the universe, and it is that transcendent Grace which the embodiment of the Mother is there to bring into action. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-universal-action-and-her-embodied-physical-action#p4-p5</ref>

''Do calm and equality come down from above by the Mother's Grace? '' When they descend, it is by the soul's aspiration and the Mother's grace.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p1-p2</ref>

''Can it be believed that the Mother's Grace is acting even when the difficulties do not disappear?''

In that case everybody might say that all my difficulties must disappear at once, I must attain to perfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that the Mother's Grace is not with me. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/difficulties-and-the-mothers-grace#p3-p4</ref>

To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together—the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-iii#p1</ref>

''Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace?''

The more one develops the psychic, the more is it possible for the Grace to act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p14-p15</ref>

The great work of the Avatar is to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To be a disciple of the Avatar is to become an instrument of the Divine Grace. The Mother is the great dispensatrix—through identity—of the Divine Grace with a perfect knowledge—through identity—of the absolute mechanism of Universal Justice.

If it is the general compassion and grace of the Guru, that, one would think, is always there on the disciple; his acceptance itself is an act of grace and the help is there for the disciple to receive. But the touch of grace, divine grace coming directly or through the Guru is a special phenomenon having two sides to it,—the grace of the Guru or the Divine, in fact both together, on one side and a "state of grace" in the disciple on the other. This "state of grace" is often prepared by a long tapasya or purification in which nothing decisive seems to happen, only touches or glimpses or passing experiences at the most, and it comes suddenly without warning. If this is what is spoken of in Ramakrishna's ["With the Guru's grace all difficulties can disappear in a flash, even as age long darkness does the moment you strike a match."] saying, then it is true that when it comes, the fundamental difficulties can in a moment and generally do disappear. Or at the very least something happens which makes the rest of the sadhana—however long it may take—sure and secure. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p23</ref>

The Guru's touch or grace may open something, but the difficulties have always to be worked out still. What is true is that if there is complete surrender which implies the prominence of the psychic, these difficulties are no longer felt as a burden or obstacle but only as superficial imperfections which the working of the grace will remove. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p28</ref>

It is not the human defects of the Guru that can stand in the way when there is the psychic opening, confidence and surrender. The Guru is the channel or the representative or the manifestation of the Divine, according to the measure of his personality or his attainment; but whatever he is, it is to the Divine that one opens in opening to him, and if something is determined by the power of the channel, more is determined by the inherent and intrinsic attitude of the receiving consciousness, an element that comes out in the surface mind as simple trust or direct unconditional self-giving, and once that is there, the essential things can be gained even from one who seems to others than the disciple an inferior spiritual source and the rest will grow up in the sadhak of itself by the Grace of the Divine, even if the human being in the Guru cannot give it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p45</ref>