Grace Quotes - Page 10

• Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Daring, Confidence In God

  Martin Luther, J. Theodore Mueller (2003). “Commentary on Romans”, p.17, Kregel Publications

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• There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

  John Bradford

  Insult, Sleazes, God Is Not Great

  "Problems in the Relations of God and Man" by Clement Charles Julian Webb, (p. 107), 1911.

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• For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  World, Still Waters, Herons

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• 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?

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Learning, Followers

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Silence gives the proper grace to women

  Sophocles

  Giving, Silence

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• Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

  George Santayana

  Courage, Humility, Men

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• I once was lost, but now am found.

  John Newton

  Lost, Found, God's Grace

  Olney Hymns "Amazing Grace" (1779)

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• There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

  Charles Olson

  Europe, Dear, Stills

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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

  John Dryden

  Affection, Goodness, Vice And Virtue

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• Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

  Henry Harland

  Life, Ready, Minors

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• ...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

  Paul Theroux

  Mind, Hawaii, States

  Observer, London, October 29, 1989.

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• Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

  Robert Burns

  Prayer, Three, Half

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• Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

  Eliza Farnham

  Art, Office, Life Is

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.122

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• 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.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Blessed, Grateful, Heart

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentine

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

  John Milton

  Wish, Saws

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.284

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• I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

  Martin Puryear

  Moving, Thinking, Saving

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• A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

  Francis Bacon

  Letters, Figures, Recommendations

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• The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Summer, Lying, Land

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “The Epistles of John, Jude, and the Book of Revelation”

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• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

  Marquis de Custine

  Lying, Doe, Natural

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• Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspiration, Class, Style

  "Napster Brings Music to the Masses; 'The Sopranos' Season Finale Ends With a Bang; Kyra Sedgwick Looks to Become New Talk of TV". "Showbiz Today" with Laurin Sydney and Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2000.

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• Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

  Elie Wiesel

  Deeds And Words, Silence, Quality

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Persistence, People

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• Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Law, Sin

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