Gracious Quotes - Page 4

• Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

  William Shakespeare

  Royal, Fairness, Virtuous

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.912, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Sports, Failure, Learning

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• Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

  Isocrates

  Men

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• You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Song, Men, Fire

  Song: Great Balls of Fire

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• You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

  Jonah

  Steadfast, Steadfast Love, Merciful

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• God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

  Francis Asbury

  Faith, Language And Power, Power Of Language

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.232

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• Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Grieving, Clouds, Hands

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• If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice, Judging, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

  Brennan Manning

  Adulation, Charismatic, Sheer

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Light, Resentment

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.

  Stephen Potter

  Perfection, Majesty, Withdrawal

  "One-Upmanship". Book by Stephen Potter, p. 143, 1952.

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• History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors.  Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part.  Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.

  George Wein

  Beautiful, Foundation, Directors

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• The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

  Christine Pelosi

  Husband, Pregnancy, Good Luck

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• Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Wisdom, Prayer, Pride

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Faith, Encouragement

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.

  Watchman Nee

  Lord

  Watchman Nee (2012). “The Joyful Heart: Through the Year with Watchman Nee”, CLC Publications

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• I meet with virtually everybody that comes down to Olympia, that Facebook messages me or emails me or calls me on the telephone. And, in particular, last year I was very proud to go speak before a group that I was invited to by a lesbian anarchist, I mean, my goodness gracious! I can listen and work with anybody.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Mean, Years

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• Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Character

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• Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Loss, Play

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Speech, Spokes, Candor

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• Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

  Don Williams

  Lesson Learned, Luck, Lessons

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• God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

  Jim George

  Giving, Warning, Judgment

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• Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Worship, Glorious

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2014

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• Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we should be ruthless about is our time. How much time do you spend complaining about your problems to people who can't help you solve them? How much time do you talk when you should be doing? When it comes to others, be gracious. But when it comes to you and your time, be ruthless.

  Phil Cooke

  Commitment, People, Intellectual

  "Maybe It’s Time Christians Learned These “Non-Christian” Habits" by Phil Cooke, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.

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• If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Christian, Rejects

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