Grace Quotes - Page 15

• I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. It occurred to me that if Grace and I were objects, she would be an elaborate digital clock, synced up with the World Clock in London with technical perfection, and I’d be a snow globe – shaken memories in a glass ball.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Glasses, Snow

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.66, Scholastic Inc.

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• Shouldn't you be looking at other cars? You know, car shopping usually involves ... shopping." "I don't shop very well", Grace said. "I just see what I need and get it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Shopping, Car, Needs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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• I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Men, Knack, Charming

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.61, Penguin

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• If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Humility, Needs

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

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• Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Inheritance, Glory

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “The Religious Affections”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• ...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  May, Madness, Midst

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• I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege, My Queen, My Lovely.” “I don’t think that last one is a formal title,” I said. “It should be.

  Amanda Hocking

  Queens, Thinking, Years

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.548, Pan Macmillan

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• Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, My Thoughts

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.

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• Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it.

  J.R. Ward

  Hands, World, And Love

  J. R. Ward (2015). “The Story of Son: A Dark Vampire Romance”, p.66, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.

  F.B. Meyer

  Son, Men, Hands

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• The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Wicked, Be Kind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.” Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. In the words of John the Revelator, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and … faith [in] Jesus.”

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Children, Father

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

  Frank O'Hara

  Born

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.256, Univ of California Press

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• she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hands, Mystery, Forgotten

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.59, Faber & Faber

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• Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Children, Giving Up, Communication

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• And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Opposites, World, Tiny

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.240, W. W. Norton & Company

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• O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

  John Milton

  War, Night, Men

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Bed, Settling

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• Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Land, Safety, Thieves

  Philip Yancey (2008). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.105, Zondervan

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• No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Dark, Matter, Thread

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• Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

  Clive Barker

  Prayer, Sleep, Moon

  "Abarat". Book by Clive Barker, 2002.

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• DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Heart, Deceit

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.921, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up bullshit reasons to call the Keep so I could hear his voice. My only saving grace was that Curran wasn’t handling this whole mating thing any better. Yesterday he’d called me at the office claiming that he couldn’t find his socks. We talked for two hours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hurt, Fighting, Two

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.81, Penguin

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• To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.

  James Patterson

  Love Is, What Matters, Without Love

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• Sam, I really want to buy a red coffee pot, if they exist," Grace said. "I'll find you one

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Coffee, Want, Red

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