The following story was told as true. An Irish woman who had just been at confession met on the steps of the chapel the other woman who was her greatest enemy in the village. The other women let fly a torrent of abuse. “Isn’t it a shame for ye”, replied Biddy, “to be talking to me like that, ye coward, and me in a state of Grace the way I can’t answer ye? But you wait. I won’t be in a state of Grace for long.”
— C. S. Lewis (from “A Slip of the Tongue” in The Weight of Glory)
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Throne and Altar 
The grace is in how these two women’s contentions serve to keep the other townsfolk focused and grateful.