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.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

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.

— Oscar Wilde

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty and grace command the world.

— Park Benjamin

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

— John Braford

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

— Robert Burns

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

— Patrick Campbell

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!

— Marquis De Custine

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

— Jonathan Edwards

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.

— R. P. C. Hanson

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

— Henry Harland

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

— William Hazlitt

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

— William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

— William Hazlitt

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

— Doug Horton

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.

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

— Bo Lozoff

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.

— Alexander Maclaren

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

— Mark L. Mika

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.

— French Proverb

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

— Charles A. Stoddard

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.

— A. W. Tozer

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

— Benjamin B. Warfield

Stop being a lost wanderer. Be a broken sinner. It's the only position making you qualified for God's grace.

— Grace Sabarus