Goddesses of beauty

Usage examples of graces.

He was uplifted above others in gifts of graces, so was He lowered beneath others by the ignominy of His sufferings.

Objection 1: It would seem that the gratuitous graces were not in Christ.

But the gratuitous graces would seem to be certain participations, bestowed distributively and particularly upon divers subjects, according to 1 Cor.

Therefore it would seem that there were no gratuitous graces in Christ.

Further, gratuitous graces are ordained to the benefit of the faithful.

Now we do not read that Christ made use of these gratuitously given graces, especially as regards the gift of tongues.

Hence it is clear that all the gratuitous graces were most excellently in Christ, as in the first and chief teacher of the faith.

Now of both these graces Christ had the fulness, since inasmuch as His soul was united to the Godhead, He had the perfect power of effecting all these acts.

And hence in other saints these graces are divided, but not in Christ.

But she did not so receive them, as to put them and such like graces to every use, as did Christ: but accordingly as it befitted her condition of life.

Regeneration suffices for those who are on the point of death, yet the graces of Confirmation are necessary for those who are to conquer.

This comparison of the two graces to the evening and morning light is made on account of a likeness of order, since the darkness of night follows after the evening light, and the light of day after the light of morning, but not on account of a likeness of greater or lesser quantity.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Perhaps because you have not been dubbed knights, as I have, the enchantments of this place will not affect your graces, and your minds will be free and able to judge the things in this castle as they really and truly are, and not as they seem to me.

Senores, are your graces well-versed and expert in matters pertaining to knight errantry?