Grace Quotes - Page 9

• Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtuous

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1755). “M.T. Cicero, His Offices: Or, His Treatise Concerning the Moral Duties of Mankind; His Cato Major, Concerning the Means of Making Old Age Happy; His Laelius, Concerning Friendship; His Moral Paradoxes; The Vision of Scipio, Concerning a Future State; His Letter Concerning the Duties of a Magistrate. With Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.53

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• A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Reality, Survival

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Mind, Body

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• Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

  Saul Bellow

  Grateful, Artist, Needs

  Foreword to "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

  Mariah Carey

  Talking, Singing, Saving

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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he places upon me: that is law. Now if law means that God requires something of me for their fulfillment, then deliverance from law means he no longer requires that from me, but himself provides it.

  Watchman Nee

  Mean, Law, Doe

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.121, CLC Publications

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• My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

  Gerrit Smith

  Spring, Rights, Favors

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• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "The Harper Book of Quotations". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.

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• God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

  Billy Graham

  Grace And Mercy, Our World, Giving

  Billy Graham, Hallmark Cards, Inc (2006). “Life wisdom from Billy Graham: Billy Graham”

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• The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Perfect, World, Path

  "Siddhartha".

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• By the grace of God I am what I am

  Mark Dever

  I Am What I Am, Grace Of God

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• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Success, Pain

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.101

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• In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Faces, Form, Womanly

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• As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Art, Giving, Soul

  Thomas Guthrie (1865). “Man and the Gospel”, p.21

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• Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Loyalty, Good Life, Passion

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• My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Father, Fishing

  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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• Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

  John Green

  Real, War, Cancer

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• I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

  John Green

  Responsibility, Way, Privilege

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.218, Penguin

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• Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

  Saint Augustine

  Horse, Philosophical, Riders

  "De Libero Arbitrio" by Saint Augustine, (388 - 395).

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• We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

  Bo Lozoff

  Light, Degrees, Moments

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• Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

  Charles Warren Stoddard

  Order, Perfect, Savages

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• To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

  Douglas Horton

  Fall, Falls From Grace, Bottom

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• Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Challenges, Trying

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• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nursing, Men, Nurse

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.114

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