Gracious Quotes - Page 9

• In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Men, Essence

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.30, Multnomah

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• People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Character, Intimate Relationships

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• He let you have the pants anyway?" she asked. I had started talking about Maxon as soon as I could, eager to know how their conversation had gone. "Yeah. He was very generous about it all." "I think it's charming that he's a good winner." "He is a good winner. He's even gracious when he's gotten the raw end of things." Like a knee to the royal jewels, for example.

  Kiera Cass

  Thinking, Jewels, Talking

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• Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to the laws of your mind to suppose that you can force your soul into that gracious state. Take your heart in prayer to Him who understands it and say, "Lord, cleanse it. Lord, renew it. Lord, work repentance in it." The more you try to produce penitent emotions in yourself, the more you will be disappointed. However, if you believingly think of Jesus dying for you, repentance will burst forth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his attention. Only I see that he moves always to the empty spot and the court always moves after him. He is like a dog trying to escape his own tail. He indulged himself in one brief moment of privacy, and almost died of it. Relius, he hates being king.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Dog, Kings, Hate

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• Gracious," said Cecily. "You must be Mr. Sallows." "Nephilim," observed the shop owner gloomily. "I detest Nephilim." "Hmph," said Cecily. "Charmed, I'm sure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nephilim, Owners, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Faces, Determined

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too long and well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and rose When I come back to you, as summer comes. Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Wise, Sweet

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Soul, Mysterious

  Julian Of Norwich (1998). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.152, Penguin UK

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• ...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Lovely, Praise

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done." "Sounds easy enough." "Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?" "Maybe later," said Gracious. "How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan.

  Derek Landy

  Wall, Good Luck, Kissing

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• Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.

  Israel Regardie

  Yoga, Mean, Men

  Israel Regardie (1972). “The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic”, p.34, Weiser Books

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• I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

  Dara Torres

  Dream, Hate, Kids

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• Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Jesus, Art, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 546, 1895.

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• 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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• I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
  First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
  The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
  The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
  By no change of its large calm front of snow.

  Robert Browning

  Long, Snow, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.

  Jenna Lyons

  Inspirational, Thinking, Empowering

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• I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Soul, Favors

  Charles Kingsley (1889). “Works”

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• One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone

  Bill Vaughan

  Moving, Heart, Grace

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• The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

  Dorothy Parker

  Lonely, Way, Vacancy

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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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• The Book, this Holy Book, on every line,
  Mark'd with the seal of high divinity,
  On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love
  Divine, and with the eternal heraldry
  And signature of God Almighty stamp'd
  From first to last; this ray of sacred light,
  This lamp, from off the everlasting throne,
  Mercy took down, and in the night of time
  Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow;
  And evermore beseeching men With tears
  And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.

  Robert Pollok

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book Ii.”

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• Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, School, Blessing

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• And I will trust that He who heeds
  The life that hides in mead and wold,
  Who hangs you alder's crimson beads,
  And stains these mosses green and gold,
  Will still, as He hath done, incline
  His gracious care to me and mine.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Gold, Moss, Done

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1895). “The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier”

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Heart, Men

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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