Grace Quotes - Page 7

• Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Giving, Mind, Enemy

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson (2004). “Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings”, p.113, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Children, Affliction

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• Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Morning, Light

  "The Sermons of Thomas Adams: The Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians".

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• Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  Joseph Hall

  Teacher, Appreciation, Knowledge

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82

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• Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Money, Giving, Favors

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.214

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• It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

  John Green

  Good Life, Real, Hazel Grace

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.798, Penguin

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• That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

  Francois Mauriac

  Too Late, Mystery, Late

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• Grace grows best in winter.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Winter, Grows

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• If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.

  John Mark McMillan

  Ocean, Sinking, Ifs

  Song: How He Loves Us

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• I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

  Studs Terkel

  Beauty, Want, Courses

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• Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Creativity, Artist, Journey

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• God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

  William Gurnall

  Names, Saint, Thrones

  William Gurnall (1979). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil: Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon: Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, Banner of Truth

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• I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Way, Knows

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

  Barry McGuire

  Religious, Hate, Doors

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

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• O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heaven, Hell

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.117

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• I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

  Debra Messing

  Friendship, New York, Gay

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• The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

  William Gurnall

  Ifs

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.563

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• Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!

  Karen Walker

  Wise, Baby, Jesus

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• As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Simple, Religion, Growing

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• Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.

  Walter Scott

  Summer, Queens, May

  'Rokeby' (1813) canto 3, st. 16

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• Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Accused, Deficiency

  1776 Remark, May. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

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• Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

  Georges Rouault

  Heart, Light, Beats

  Georges Rouault, Ileana Marcoulesco, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (1996). “Georges Rouault: the inner light”, Menil Foundation

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• Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Bait, Hook, Mere

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• Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Order, Sick, Desire

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.186

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