Gracious Quotes - Page 7

• I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Grace, Wish

  Source: thrownscabbard.blogspot.com

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• I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

  Shane Harper

  Thinking, Cities, People

  "Disney Channel sitcom star Shane Harper tackles big screen and big question – Is God real?". Interview With John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!

  Julian of Norwich

  Blessed, May, Trusted

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Giving, Soul, Charity

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.20, TAN Books

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• Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, House, Guests

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  David St. John

  Prayer, Ambition, Clothes

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• And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Class, Wife

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, Doors, Lunch

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.326, Vintage

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• God is gracious to some very peculiar people.

  Wallace Stevens

  People, Peculiar

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.505, Univ of California Press

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• What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Fashion, Art

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• In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  School, Sight, Scripture

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.481, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start. But if I knew all the misery it was going to cause me in the weeks following the game, I'd have thought long and hard about it. The players from Kentucky were gracious about it, but many of their fans and people from other parts of the country did not want to see it.

  Don Haskins

  Basketball, Country, Player

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• So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

  Edmund Spenser

  Example, Doctrine, Profitable

  "The First Book of Spenser's Faerie Queene".

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• As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I
  have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like,
  'Oh my goodness gracious — that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing which
  is cool.

  Jordin Sparks

  Moving, Kids, People

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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• All labours draw hame at even,
  And can to others say,
  "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,
  Whilk sent this summer day."

  Alexander Hume

  Summer, July, Heaven

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• A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

  George Sand

  Sorrow, Cigar, Hours

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• When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Prayer, Moving, Heart

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• Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.

  Dan Block

  Sovereign, Worship, Revelations

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• I have never been to a court s gracious as the one Neha keeps. Dmitri played a knife through his fingers, one of the three he'd brought back from Neha's territory. "She truly believes in giving honor to a visitor." He threw to knife at Jason. "He threw it back as Venom added, "Thought she might have that guest neatly executed as the court sleeps.

  Nalini Singh

  Believe, Sleep, Knives

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• Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps man to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator.

  Pope Pius XII

  Sports, Communication, Character

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• How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

  James Thomas Fields

  Sweet, Flower, Men

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• A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Real, Lying

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• The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Way, Rich

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it's high time we give each other a break.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Successful

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Encourage Me”, p.72, Harper Collins

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• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins. Let us, then, consider what He has done for us, and what we have done against Him; let us call to mind our sins in detail, and His gracious benefits in like manner, remembering that whatever there is of good in us is not ours, but His, and then we need not be afraid of vainglory or of taking complacency in ourselves.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humble, Justice Of God, Mind

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