Grace Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Grace

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Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.
~By Mohammed Omar ~


The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
~By Sun Tzu ~


I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
~By Horace Walpole ~


God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~


Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
~By Orlando Bloom ~


Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
~By Joseph Joubert ~


Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
~By John Murray ~


Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
~By George Santayana ~


The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
~By John Owen ~


If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
~By William James ~


The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
~By Xun Zi ~


The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
~By Christopher Fry ~


There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
~By Charles Olson ~


But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
~By Thomas Day ~


It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
~By Anthony Doerr ~


And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~By Simon Raven ~


The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~


For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~


A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
~By Juvenal ~


Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
~By Karl Barth ~


A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
~By Tennessee Williams ~


I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
~By Brian P. Cleary ~


Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~


Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
~By Christopher Dawson ~


It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
~By Pierre Corneille ~


That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~


It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.
~By Paul Vixie ~


All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.
~By Philip Henry ~


It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
~By Jack Cade ~


Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
~By Theodore White ~


Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
~By Bill Moyers ~


A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
~By Pindar ~


Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
~By Jim Palmer ~


I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.
~By Mia Farrow ~


Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
~By Saint Augustine ~


I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
~By Thomas Willis ~


To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
~By Pablo Picasso ~


I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
~By Studs Terkel ~


I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
~By Anna Akhmatova ~


I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
~By Jewel ~


He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
~By William Shakespeare ~


I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
~By Christopher Atkins ~


For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~


Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
~By John Dryden ~


Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
~By Johannes Tauler ~


In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
~By Thomas Shepard ~


Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
~By Karl Rahner ~


Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
~By Harold Warner ~


As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
~By Carl Van Vechten ~


Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
~By Vincent McNabb ~


As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
~By John Andre ~


Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
~By Hesiod ~


No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
~By Archibald Alexander ~


Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~


Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
~By William Hazlitt ~


Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
~By Douglas Hyde ~


I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
~By Anne Lamott ~


Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
~By Martin Luther ~


That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
~By A. Whitney Brown ~


At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~


Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~


I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
~By Sting ~


Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
~By Abbe Pierre ~


My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
~By Gerrit Smith ~


Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
~By Tennessee Williams ~


Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~


Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
~By Drew Barrymore ~


To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
~By Douglas Horton ~


Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~


I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.
~By John Nelson Darby ~


The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
~By Max de Pree ~


Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
~By Francis of Assisi ~


A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
~By Lucius Accius ~


Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
~By John Keats ~


Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
~By John Clayton ~


The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
~By Marcel Proust ~


Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~


Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~


I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~


The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
~By Thomas Day ~


The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
~By Isadora Duncan ~


Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
~By James Thurber ~


Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~


Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
~By John Strachan ~


I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
~By Peter Stone ~


Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~


For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~


How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~


With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
~By Roger Mahony ~


The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~


All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~


When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
~By Victor Hugo ~


For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.
~By Johann Arndt ~


Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~


I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
~By Christopher Columbus ~


In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
~By Warren Buffett ~


We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
~By Horace ~


It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
~By Chanakya ~


O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.
~By Thomas Ken ~


The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
~By George Mason ~

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