Gracious Quotes

• Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Hands, Devotional

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• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

  Francis Bacon

  Kindness, Men, Grace

  Essays "Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature" (1625)

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• We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

  John Wesley

  Judging, Judging Others, Should

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• Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Witty, Party, Tongue

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• The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

  Denis Waitley

  Real, Humble, Champion

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• Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Skills, Medicine

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• We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Saint, May, Serving Others

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.19, Aeterna Press

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• I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win

  Dorothy Kilgallen

  Winning, Thinking, Important

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• All I can do is be faithful with my gift, be faithful with anyone I talk to and let love be my guide and just be gracious with people. God will take care of the rest. I really believe that.

  Marc Martel

  Believe, Love Is, People

  "Downhere lead singer Marc Martel talks to Whole Notes about going viral, appearing on “Ellen” and sounding like Queen’s Freddie Mercury". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Acceptance, Offering

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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• God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace, Infinite, Holiness Of God

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.95, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Long

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Daily Help Devotional”, p.81, Whitaker House

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• Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Laughter, Humor, Sight

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• Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Giving, Grace, Giver

  E. Stanley Jones (1984). “The way: 364 adventures in daily living”

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• Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Religious, Children, Thinking

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.149

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• Be as just and gracious unto me,
  As I am confident and kind to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Confidence, Kind, Thee

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.189, Oxford University Press

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• A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Wise, Order

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• You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

  Joe Namath

  Loss, Nfl, Loser

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• We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Humility, Heart

  "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln".

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• Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

  A. C. Benson

  Love, Life, Writing

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• You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Giving Up, Moving, God Love

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• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Sweet, Book

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

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• The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Green, Tongue

  Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.86, Paulist Press

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• I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.

  Lil Wayne

  Grateful, Humble, Happens

  The GQ Interview, www.gq.com. October 20, 2011.

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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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