It may be like general grace and saving grace.
General grace is given to all, the air you breath, the water you drink, normal living. God has granted this to all.
Saving grace, the love that God gives to his own, is an added grace that only his children receive.
Oh. Muddle.
I'm not up on categories of grace honestly. But I would think that conscience and compassion are beyond our physical needs and much closer to sharing in, in communion with, the divine.