“The Jansenists erect ‘grace’ into a kind of fourth person of the
Trinity. They are, without thinking or intending it, Quaternitarians.
St. Paul and St. Augustine, too exclusively studied, have done all the
mischief. Instead of ‘grace,’ say help, succor, a divine influence, a
dew of heaven; then one can come to a right understanding. The word
‘grace’ is a sort of talisman, all the baneful spell of which can be
broken by translating it. The trick of personifying words is a fatal
source of mischief in theology.”