Grace Quotes - Page 36

• It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world.  To reach out is to risk.  There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self

  Anne Bogart

  Self, Risk, World

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• The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Art, Contentment, Kind

  Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited

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• Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.

  Steven Spielberg

  Vision, Legacy, Mystery

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• As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque forms and events -- in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Tangled, Landscape

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• But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teacher, Ideas, Desire

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.198, Vintage

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• The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Numbers, Three, Guests

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• In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

  Marcel Marceau

  Art, Hands, Creative

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• My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Strength, Sex, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.6

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• Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.

  William Walker

  Reading, Learning

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• The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

  Edward Abbey

  Pride, Needs, Looks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

  Edward Abbey

  Heaven, Wealth, Should

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• The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descensus ad inferos, the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Men, Collective Unconscious

  "Jung on Christianity".

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• The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Mercy, Rage, Humans

  "The Man Who Had No Idea (The Vengeance of Hera)". Book by Thomas M. Disch, October 1978.

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• Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, Humility, Abiding

  Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.317

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• Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.

  Charles Hodge

  Character, Spirit, Moral

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.522

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• The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

  Terrence Malick

  Love Is, Two, Shining

  "Fictional character: Mrs. O'Brien". "The Tree of Life", May 2011.

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• The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Humble, Humility

  Richard Baxter (1838). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: With a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works and Times; and a Portrait : in Four Volumes”, p.405

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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, Denial, Saving

  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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• Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Hell, Infinite, Millions

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.653

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• The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Father, Thinking

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.487

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.177, Lulu.com

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• Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Character, Apology, Groups

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• We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Christian, Kings

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.90

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• God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christmas, Jesus, Light

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