Grace Quotes - Page 18

• She could've looked at the tiny miracles in front of her: my feet, my hands, my fingers, the shape of my shoulders beneath my jacket, my human body, but she only stared at my eyes. The wind whipped again, through the trees, but it had no force, no power over me. The cold bit at my fingers, but they stayed fingers. "Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something." "Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Hands, Wind

  "Shiver". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, August 1, 2009.

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• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Heart, Light

  'The Bride of Abydos' (1813) canto 1, st. 6

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• You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Men, Way

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.399, Macmillan

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• Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R.

  Philippa Gregory

  Mother, Kings, Queens

  Philippa Gregory (2010). “The Red Queen: A Novel”, p.377, Simon and Schuster

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• He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

  Cassandra Clare

  Violin, Beloved, Clockwork Prince

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.650, Simon and Schuster

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• Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

  John Green

  Good Life, Hands, Wind

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.153, Penguin UK

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• Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Destiny, Views

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• It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Stupid, Oxygen

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• Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

  John Green

  Cancer, Eye, Intellectual

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

  Tom Robbins

  Self Esteem, Lying, Trying

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.47, Bantam

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• [T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Religious, Hats, Company

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

  John Green

  Hipster, Augustus, Okay

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.48, Penguin

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• Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Struggle

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

  Philippa Gregory

  Done, Ifs

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.1495, Simon and Schuster

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• Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

  Alexander Pope

  Hands, Masters, Method

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,”, p.71

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• Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cute, Cat, Self

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• God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Lds, Survival, Cold

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• The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Beautiful, Girl, Dog

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• Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Regret, Heart, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.620, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.626, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Past, Thinking

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• You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I’m not clever—I’m a genius.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Morning, Clever, Men

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “Nyphron Rising”, p.99, Ridan Publishing

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• Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

  John Green

  Mother, Book, Winter

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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• That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

  John Green

  Team, Roaring, Duos

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.115, Penguin

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• Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Fall, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.616

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