Gracious Quotes - Page 11

• He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.

  Robert Boyle

  Heaven, Christ, Lows

  Robert Boyle (1772). “The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...”, p.286

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• Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that Ive met. Hes really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

  Valerie Cruz

  Real, Character, Intelligent

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• for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

  Helen Waddell

  Europe, Debt, World

  Helen Waddell (2000). “The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.

  George W. Bush

  Brother, Humor, Political

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• Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Design, Heaven

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• What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

  William Saroyan

  Children, People, Special

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• there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Faith, Real, Book

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• I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Memories, Hate

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• Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Wise, Sweet

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.2, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.

  Brennan Manning

  Hero, Class, Two

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.19, Multnomah

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• In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Book, Here I Am

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Art, Acceptance, Thinking

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• Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugationthe last arguments to which kings resort.

  Patrick Henry

  Love, Kings, War

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.

  Richard Sibbes

  Spiritual, Eye, Godly

  Richard Sibbes, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE BRUISED REED”, Lulu.com

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• Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

  O. J. Simpson

  Losing, Loser, Show Me

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• You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.

  Mark Driscoll

  Crush, Running, Jesus

  "Jesus Took Our Wrath (Propitiation),". Sermon preached at Mars Hill Church, November 6, 2005.

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• To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.

  Tim LaHaye

  Believe, People, Heaven

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• We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

  David Platt

  Encouraging, World, Sovereign

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.163, Multnomah

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• For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more.

  Martin Luther

  Sweet, Moving, Heart

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• Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

  John Henry Newman

  Love, Self, Roots

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.39, Ignatius Press

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• I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

  Harry S. Truman

  Numbers, Mind, Patch Up

  Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”

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• It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,
  Which moves the world.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Moving, Compassion, World

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• Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

  Max Anders

  Pain, Regret, Essence

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• If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Depth, Sin, Made

  Twitter post from Mar 07, 2015

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• We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Self, Giving

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