ABSTRACT
Grace in this sense seems to be a gift. Those who possess beauty do not work for it or deserve it: it comes without effort and without thought. The concept of grace has played a great part in Christian theology, which differentiates, for example, between prevenient grace, sufficient grace, and efficacious grace. We must try to consider the subject in a more general way. There can be no hope of defending religion by means of pseudo-scientific theories, which in any case would be opposed to religion in so far as they must treat God as if He were only one object among others. The religious man has to live his life on principles which cannot be turned into scientific hypotheses: it has to be enough for him that his assumption of divine grace is necessary to a way of life which has its own achievements, its own consistency, its own system, and its own satisfaction.
