Grace Quotes - Page 6

• Courage is grace under pressure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

  When asked what he meant by 'guts' in an interview with Dorothy Parker: 'New Yorker' 30 November 1929

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• As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

  Mooji

  Thinking, Garbage, Rubbish

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• Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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• Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt...
  but a find;
  not a greeting...
  but a proclamation;
  not an outward fashion...
  but inward grace;
  not a day...
  but an eternity.

  Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira

  Fashion, Easter, Blessed

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• For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

  Johann Arndt

  Salvation, Righteousness, Pure

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• When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

  Victor Hugo

  Wrinkles, Light, Age

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

  Plato

  Beauty, Inspirational Life, Simple

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor

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• There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Years, Play

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• Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Mixtures, Formidable

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

  Joseph Joubert

  Feelings, Movement, Body

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

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• Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

  Tennessee Williams

  Beautiful, Giving Up, People

  Tennessee Williams (1986). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.81, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

  Martin Luther

  God, Faith, Men

  "Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings".

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• And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

  Rick Warren

  Forgiveness, Reality, People

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• Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Powerful, Light, Years

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.33, Routledge

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• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.

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• The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Light, Heaven, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  World, Sin, Mankind

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.52, Fig

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• Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Fire, Light

  "The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks".

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• Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Sin, Free Will

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• As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Mind, Eloquence

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• Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Eye, Air

  William Hazlitt (1872). “Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).”, p.365

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• Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Kindness, Modesty, Politeness

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• Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Play, Watches, Movement

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• I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

  Jewel

  Time, Pain, Soul

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• I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Giving, Needs

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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