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• I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Country, Catholic

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.274, e-artnow

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• I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Father, Shy, Littles

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• We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

  John Newton

  Mistake, Glory, Advantage

  John Newton, John Cecil (1831). “The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil”, p.319

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• Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread.

  Edward M Hays

  Simple, Expression, Behaviour

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• Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Desire, Delight

  Jonathan Edwards (1851). “The Works ...”, p.187

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• All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Humility, Grace, Together

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.131, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda Hawkins Costigan. She was a gracious teacher, and a wonderful collaborator.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Teacher, Directors, Transition

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, and you've got to have all these luncheons, and be gracious, and you've got to give a lot of presentations and you've got to give a lot of speeches, and you've got to be on tour.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Giving, Speech

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; 'tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life, and health, and peace.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Peace, Kings

  Charles Wesley, J. Alan Kay (1957). “Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley”

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• Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Roots, White, Quality

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.

  Hadewijch

  Love Is, Desire, Want

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.335, Paulist Press

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• O Nature, gracious mother of us all,
  Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie
  Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye
  That seeks and waits.

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Mother, Nature, Lying

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• God whose gifts in gracious flood
  Unto all who seek are sent,
  Only asks you to be good
  And is content.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodness, Flood, Be Good

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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• God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

  R. C. Sproul

  Fall, Grace, Limits

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

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• The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, "Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

  Anthony de Mello

  Ocean, People, Frogs

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.105, Image

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• Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.

  Celia Thaxter

  Lying, Tired, Contentment

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

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• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

  Bill Vaughan

  Simple, Expression, Kind

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• No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.

  Christopher Columbus

  Gratitude, Night, Men

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• It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Discovery, Ugly

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• Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, News, Tongue

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 85

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• Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
  That would reduce these bloody days again
  And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
  Let them not live to taste this land's increase
  That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
  Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
  That she may long live here, God say amen!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Land

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.559

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• I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.

  Shane Black

  Men, Opposites, Careers

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• Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Organization, Political

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• A temptation is the universe's gracious way of allowing a soul to evolve without creating negative karma. In other words, a temptation is like a magnet that draws to awareness, negativity, that would otherwise create negative karma if it remained unconscious. A temptation is a dress rehearsal for a negative karmic act.

  Gary Zukav

  Karma, Creating, Negativity

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Drama, Careers

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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