Grace Quotes

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,Unless deportment give them decent grace;Blessed with all other requisites to please,To want the striking elegance of ease;Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skillOf moving gracefully, or standing still.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

Every natural action is graceful.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

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

Pride leaves no room for grace.

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

Regardless of the situation, react with class.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

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.