#Grace Quotes

“. . . 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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Every midwife knowsthat not until a mother’s wombsoftens from the pain of laborwill a way unfoldand the infant find that opening to be born.Oh friend!There is treasure in your heart,it is heavy with child.Listen.All the awakened ones,like trusted midwives are saying,'welcome this pain.It opens the dark passage of Grace.”

“Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.”

“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.”

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

“Every natural action is graceful.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.”

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

“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.”

“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 am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully”

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

“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.”

“Regardless of the situation, react with class.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.”

“What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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