Grace famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.
-- Aaron Tippin -
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
-- Abbe Pierre -
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
-- Aberjhani -
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
-- Aberjhani -
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
-- Adam Clarke -
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
-- Adam Young -
Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.
-- Adoniram Judson Gordon -
Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
-- Adyashanti -
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
-- Adyashanti -
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
-- Agnes Repplier -
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.
-- Alan Redpath -
The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to ***** or mask the process of dilution.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.
-- Alex Dow -
This is how I define grace: youre on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. Thats where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know Im prepared.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
-- Alexander Pope -
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
-- Alexander Pope -
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
-- Alexander Pope -
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
-- Alexander Pope -
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
-- Alexander Pope -
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
-- Alexander Pope -
Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.
-- Alexander Whyte -
But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.
-- Alexander Whyte -
And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I dont know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what shes wearing.
-- Alexandra Daddario -
He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.
-- Alexandra Potter -
The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!
-- Alice Cary -
An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation ...
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.
-- Alistair Begg -
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.
-- Alistair Begg -
As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power.
-- Alistair Begg -
The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need.
-- Alistair Begg -
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.
-- Allan H. Meltzer -
Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
-- Aly Michalka -
I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
-- Amanda Smith -
You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
-- Amy Vanderbilt -
Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.
-- Andre Agassi -
I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
-- Andre Gide -
... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.
-- Andrea Mitchell -
Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.
-- Andrew Wommack -
Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.
-- Andrew Wommack -
Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.
-- Andrew Wommack -
I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
-- Andy Griffith -
I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.
-- Andy Mineo -
Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous
-- Andy Stanley -
Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.
-- Andy Stanley -
What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
-- Ann Beattie -
Let the power come. Let ecstasy erupt. Allow your heart to expand and overflow with adoration for this magnificent creation and for the love, wisdom and power that birthed it all. Rapture is needed now - rapture, reverence and grace.
-- Ann Mortifee -
Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
-- Ann Voskamp -
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
-- Ann Voskamp -
... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
-- Ann Voskamp -
The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?
-- Anna Cora Mowatt -
It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self
-- Anne Bogart -
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
-- Anne Hutchinson -
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
-- Anne Lamott -
Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
-- Anne Lamott -
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
-- Anne Lamott -
Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
-- Anne Lamott -
But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.
-- Anne Michaels -
Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.
-- Anne Truitt -
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
-- Annie Dillard -
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
-- Annie Dillard -
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
-- Annie Dillard -
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.
-- Anthony of Padua -
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I have the grace of providence to be poor.
-- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar -
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.
-- Anya Seton -
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
-- Archibald Alexander -
Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.
-- Arianna Huffington -
We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.
-- Arianna Huffington -
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
-- Aristophanes -
Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.
-- Arthur Eddington -
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
-- Arthur Helps -
Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies.
-- Arthur W. Pink
