Quotes about grace

"Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word."

Bayly, Thomas Haynes on grace   

"She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit."

Wilde, Oscar on grace
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"A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation."

Bacon, Francis on grace   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on grace   

"Beauty and grace command the world."

Benjamin, Park on grace   

"There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford."

Braford, John on grace   

"Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces."

Burns, Robert on grace   

"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."

Campbell, Patrick on grace   

"Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!"

Custine, Marquis De on grace   

"Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected."

Edwards, Jonathan on grace   

"Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we were sinners and enemies we have been treated as sons and heirs."

Hanson, R. P. C. on grace
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"Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?"

Harland, Henry on grace   

"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."

Hazlitt, William on grace
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"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."

Hazlitt, William on grace
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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

Hazlitt, William on grace   

"To hit bottom is to fall from grace."

Horton, Doug on grace   

"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

Joubert, Joseph on grace   

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on grace
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"We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment."

Lozoff, Bo on grace
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"The grace of God, says Luther, is like a flying summer shower. It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away."

Maclaren, Alexander on grace   

"Always accept good fortune with grace and humility."

Mika, Mark L. on grace   

"Without grace beauty is an unabated hook."

Proverb, French on grace   

"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on grace
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"Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect."

Stoddard, Charles A. on grace   

"Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God."

Tozer, A. W. on grace   

"Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving."

Warfield, Benjamin B. on grace
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"Stop being a lost wanderer. Be a broken sinner. It's the only position making you qualified for God's grace."

Grace Sabarus on grace