On the contrary, his pastoral worry about the sale of indulgences was that simple people were being misled into confusing the external remission of penalties with the crucifying inner grace that drives out self - seeking. (firstthings.com)
In her retreat Inner Grace and Outward Sign, she says to them: «You have offered yourselves for the most sacrificial, most exacting, most Christ - like of all lives — to be the agents of God in His work with the souls of others.» (religion-online.org)
Likewise against the Manichees in the matter of the goodness of sexual desire and function, and against the Pelagians in the matter of its perfection and the need of inner grace to attain that perfection, Augustine gave again to the Church a synthesis of divine and human reasoning which the Church in his day, and for a thousand years and more afterwards, recognised as true in fact to the consequences of her doctrine. (faith.org.uk)