Edmund Spenser Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• After her came jolly June, arrayed
  All in green leaves, as he a player were;
  Yet in his time he wrought as well as played,
  That by his plough-irons mote right well appear.
  Upon a crab he rode, that did him bear,
  With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace,
  And backward rode, as bargemen wont to fare,
  Bending their force contrary to their face;
  Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Player, June

• There learned arts do flourish in great honour
  And poets's wits are had in peerless price;
  Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her,
  Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice.
  For end all good, all grace there freely grows,
  Had people grace it gratefully to use:
  For God His gifts there plenteously bestows,
  But graceless men them greatly do abuse.

  Edmund Spenser

  Art, Men, People

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.175

• But O the exceeding grace
  Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
  And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
  That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
  To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.

  Edmund Spenser

  Blessed, Angel, Men

  Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd (1869). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser”, p.98

• Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Justice, Grace, Grows

  1590 Of Mammon.The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 7, stanza 4.

• A sweet attractive kind of grace,
  A full assurance given by looks,
  Continual comfort in a face,
  The lineaments of Gospel books--
  I trow that countenance cannot lye
  Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Book, Eye

• A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Men, Air

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