*** This is one of my favourite definitions of Grace:

"Grace is the unmerited, abounding provision of the unrestrained operation of God’s infinite love, through Jesus Christ… It is the provision of God to restore all that was lost spiritually because man sinned, and makes possible and sustains a new creation on a far higher plane that any other creation… Grace is God’s love in action… Grace is the unrestrained operation of love…” (J.F. Strombeck)