Grace Quotes - Page 27

• Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

  Tom Robbins

  Self Esteem, Lying, Trying

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.47, Bantam

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• [T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Religious, Hats, Company

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

  John Green

  Hipster, Augustus, Okay

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.48, Penguin

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• Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Struggle

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

  Lena Dunham

  Love, Heart, Broken

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.148, Random House

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• If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

  Philippa Gregory

  Done, Ifs

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.1495, Simon and Schuster

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• Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

  Alexander Pope

  Hands, Masters, Method

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,”, p.71

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• Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cute, Cat, Self

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• God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Lds, Survival, Cold

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• The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Beautiful, Girl, Dog

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• Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Regret, Heart, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.620, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.626, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Past, Thinking

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• All writing comes by the grace of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Grace Of God

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.210, Penguin

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• You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I’m not clever—I’m a genius.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Morning, Clever, Men

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “Nyphron Rising”, p.99, Ridan Publishing

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• Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

  John Green

  Mother, Book, Winter

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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• That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

  John Green

  Team, Roaring, Duos

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.115, Penguin

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• Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Fall, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.616

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• I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Breasts, Daybreak

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.

  Ray Kroc

  Butterfly, Men, Mcdonalds

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• ...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

  Shane Claiborne

  Kings, Believe, Teaching

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.314, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Son, Italian, Winning

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• The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

  Andrew Murray

  Humility, Roots, Waiting

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.15, Hendrickson Publishers

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• by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, 'we shall also reign together with Him,' provided only we believe . . .

  Polycarp

  Jesus, Believe, Baptism

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• What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Spring, Years

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Shakespeare's Sonnets & Poems”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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