Saving Grace Quotes

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

Funny, Laughter, Humor

"The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.

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You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

Tila Tequila

Want, Scared

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The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

Jean Renoir

Men, Grace, Saving

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

Phil Collins

Grace, Saving

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Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

Louise Erdrich

Daughter, Mother, Children

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I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

Martin Puryear

Moving, Thinking, Grace

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Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.

Philip Schaff

Christian, Responsibility, Men

Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1984). “History of the Christian Church, Volume 8 Modern Christianity the Swiss Reformation”, Eerdmans Pub Co

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Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

Michael R. Burch

Laughter, Political, Grace

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The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.

Cyprian

Taken, Grace, Doe

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If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.

Thomas Hobbes

Men, Thinking, Giving

Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.448

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... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one that causes me to say, 'I am unworthy. I may have no claim to divine sonship if you examine me at my worst.' For once a person believes he is an 'unworthy sinner,' it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Jesus Christ.

Robert H. Schuller

Jesus, Self Esteem, Believe

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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

Jess Walter

Block, Coffee, Writing

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My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

Tony Hawk

Passion, Doing What You Love, People

Interview with Gary Cohn, Entrepreneur Magazine, October 2009.

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There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin. (Mark 16:16) ... Before Christ can be received, the heart must be emptied and opened: but men's heart's are full of self-righteousn ess and vain confidence (Rom 10:3).

John Flavel

Heart, Men, Self

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The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Learning, Grace, Curiosity

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Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

Jane Fonda

Men, Grace, Saving

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Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!

Keanu Reeves

Heart, Grace, Soul

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Stephen Fry

Funny, Laughter, Humor

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I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

Richard Baxter

Self, Grace, Denial

Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.3

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I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

Jude Law

Home, Kids, Worry

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I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.

Noel Fielding

Art, Ambition, School

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My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

Tyler Perry

Mother, Church Choir, Grace

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Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace, Saving, Radical

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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Mariah Carey

Talking, Grace, Singing

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You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards

Love, Moving On, Grief

"Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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