Grace Quotes - Page 38

• If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Inspiring, Compassion

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

  John Ortberg

  Perseverance, Powerful, Disappointment

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• God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Inspirational, Giving, Understanding

  Helen Steiner Rice (2011). “Daily Inspiration for Women: From the Poetry of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.159, Barbour Publishing

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• There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Beauty, Accomplishment, Development

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.35

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• The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Joy, Needs

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sight, Good Man, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.84, 谷月社

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• Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who felt the anguish of the poor. He was an orator of excellence who spoke for the voiceless. He was a son of Harvard who reached out to the sons and daughters of Appalachia. He was a man of special grace who had a special care for the retarded and handicapped. He was a hero of war who fought hardest for peace. He said and proved in word and deed that one man can make a difference.

  Edward Kennedy

  Daughter, War, Hero

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• Your highest female grace is silence.

  Ben Jonson

  Silence, Female, Wit

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman”, p.337

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• A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Heart, Names

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
  Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
  Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
  Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,
  Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,
  That I will speak to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Air, Heaven

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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• If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Blessing, Lessons

  David Jeremiah (2013). “What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith”, p.52, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

  Timothy Keller

  Forgiveness, Perpetrators, Giver

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

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• Action has magic, grace and power in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Magic, Acting, Action

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• When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from a state of death - hopeless separation from God - to a state of everlasting life through the forgiveness of sin, based on the merits of Christ Jesus who died and rose again. Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, People, Rose

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• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Sunday, Blessing

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life”, p.47

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• All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Doors, Pathways, Kingdoms

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Wish, Might

  William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1990). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.52, Nelson Thornes

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• A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

  Louis MacNeice

  Cat, Tails, Pharaohs

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber

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• Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

  Sappho

  Famous Love, Eye, Faces

  Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications

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• Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

  William Ames

  Men, Soul, Progress

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• The wise learn many things from their enemies.

  Aristophanes

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Aristophanes, W. J. Hickie (1873). “The Comedies of Aristophanes”, p.322

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• Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

  Euripides

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Iron, Desire

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• The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Father, Light

  Brother Lawrence (of the Resurrection), Joseph de Beaufort (1874). “Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine (Brother Lawrence).”, p.62, New York ; Chicago ; Toronto : F.H. Revell

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• Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

  Philip Yancey

  Opposites, Holiness, Doorways

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