Saving Grace Quotes - Page 2

• For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Hands, Effort

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Light, Years, Grace

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• I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

  Michael Dirda

  Kindness, Thinking, Essence

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, School, Grace

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• The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Grace, Delight

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

  Molly Ringwald

  Book, Grace, Important

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Grace, Enemy

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• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creativity, Long, Grace

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• Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

  Patricia Montandon

  Laughter, Son, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

  Anthea Turner

  Vanity, Clothes, Grace

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Vanity, Grace, Principles

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• So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

  John Piper

  Moving, Giving, Joy

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• I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

  Kim Wilde

  Thinking, Laughing, Grace

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Party, Grace, Saving

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

  Jane Hirshfield

  People, Grace, Saving

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

  Martin Puryear

  Moving, Thinking, Grace

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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