include “the quality of producing favorable impressions,” a “sense of duty or propriety,” and “prayer said before meals,” but in this book the term is linked much more closely with the eleventh meaning in the dictionary: “the free and unmerited favor of God as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowing of blessings.” Grace describes the experience of receiving God’s love. As for graceful and gracious, these adjectives are sometimes equated with style and fashion, indicating that someone