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state of grace Theology A condition of being free from sin: people are essentially good and born in a state of grace...- But in the next breath, we also know that the beauty within us shines a lot more brightly and gives God more pleasure when we are connected to Jesus and in a state of grace.
- And when the archdeacon dies, he does so in a state of grace.
- The idea of ‘consulting’ Catholics not in a state of grace would have struck Newman as grotesquely beyond the pale.
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