Grace Quotes - Page 8

• All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Fishing, Trout

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.48

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• The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

  Leigh Hunt

  Hair, Incapable, Ifs

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.142

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• Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

  Joseph Joubert

  Practice, Growth, Quality

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Hands, Long, Looks

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.104

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• It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Sin, Strive

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.14

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• God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

  Orville Dewey

  Chosen, Aspire

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• True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Giving, Effort, Gains

  Frederic Dan Huntington (1887). “Good Talking and Good Manners: Fine Arts, with a Paper on the Social Law of Mutual Help and the Labor Problem”

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• There but for the grace of God, goes God.

  Winston Churchill

  Sarcastic, Insult, Sleazes

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Gardening, Instruments

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Grief, Generosity

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Appreciate, I've Learned, Accepting

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• A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Order, Despair

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.502, Anchor

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

  Rumi

  Running, Anger, Night

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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

  John Dryden

  Love, Literature, Affection

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• And I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, "If any man ascribes any of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ aright."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Men, Free Will

  "God's Will, Man's Will and Free Will".

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• By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

  Dwight L. Moody

  God, Men, Dedication

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• Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Beauty, Literature

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, Lulu.com

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  The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspirational, Peace, Environmental

  "The Power of One" by Jane Goodall, content.time.com. August 26, 2002.

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• Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Receiving, Saving, Christ

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• Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Men, Effects

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.219, Delphi Classics

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• The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.

  Kimberly Hahn

  Past, Gifts Of The Spirit, Moments

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• Oh! Could you but see the beauty of a soul in the grace of God, you would be so much enamored of it that you would do nothing else but ask souls of God; and, on the contrary, could a soul in mortal sin be placed before your eyes, you would do nothing but weep, and you would hate sin more than the devil himself, and always pray for the conversion of sinners.

  Mary Magdalene

  Hate, Eye, Soul

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