Grace Quotes

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

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

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

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.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

The grace of God is courtesy.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.