act of grace

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"It was a selfless act of grace... that touched me deeply," Kimmel said.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

“He also is the reason I am sober. He helped me. I am forever grateful for him for the act of grace alone,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024

This act of grace should be forbidden to them.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2021

The Framers thought that there should be an act of grace possible somewhere in the Constitution.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2020

You would have perished thro' my means, but by an extraordinary act of grace, which that you might be saved, has thrown me down in the middle of my course.

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre