She moved as if she owned the earth and conferred grace upon it.

Some Protestant churches call confirmation a rite, not a sacrament, and see it as merely symbolic, not an effective means of conferring divine grace.

So much emphasis is placed on books in Pountney's staging that it is hard to escape the suspicion that he believes a well-stocked library confers moral grace.

The sea is magisterial and unforgiving, but it confers majesty and grace on those who struggle to wrest a living from it.

Granted, slower readings confer patrician grace and philosophical heft, qualities that Beethoven's valedictory symphony can easily bear.

The dream, the ideals and the Charter of the United Nations conferred grace upon those who conceived and believed in them and those who still work for them.

In this Sacrament is conferred spiritual grace, and lost virtue is regained in the soul, and the beauty which was disfigured by sin returneth again.

Through the image of the Virgin Mother, ecclesiastical and traditional feudal and monarchic power claimed the authority to confer grace.

He (Zaid) was a person upon whom Allah had conferred grace; and (O Rasool) you too had extended personal favours.

The Sacraments (Catholic Church), according to dogmatic theology, both symbolize and confer grace.