Quotes About Grace

God has a funny way of reminding us we're human. [About his impromptu water break during his delivery of the GOP rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union on February 12, 2013]

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

The antidote to a culture of self- promoting leaders is one where leaders – and everyone else – repent often and forgive often, delighting themselves in the Lord, praying and praising him for the glory of his wonderful grace. A culture, therefore, in which leaders can lead out of weakness, no longer needing to be impressive or having to prove themselves to receive praise and affirmation from people.

Temporal grace,' said the Doctor. 'No weapons can function inside the TARDIS – even something as simple as a spear.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

Leisure with dignity.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The spiritual director has the double task of holding up the demands of absolute responsibility and the promise of absolute forgiveness.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

The lilacs grew with no care given them, and in the early summer they hung like bunches of mild mauve grapes from branches with leaves like dark green hearts, and the scent of them was so bold and sweet you could smell nothing else, a seasonal mercy.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

no insult can do us harm if only we do not say or do anything in return.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Being powerfull is like being a lady. If you have to tell people that you are, you aren't

Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.

Patience is more worthy than miracle-working.

O Soul touched of God, dissevered from sin, in the first estate of grace, ascend by divine grace into the seventh estate of grace, where the soul hath her fullhead of perfection by divine fruition in life of peace. And among you, actives and contemplatives, that to this life may come, hear now some crumbs[1] of the clean love, of the noble love, and of the high love of the free souls, and how the Holy Ghost hath his sail in his ship.

If you from sin are longing to be free, Look to the Lamb of God He, to redeem you, died on Calvary, Look to the Lamb of God.

staircase in less than a heartbeat, but already Grace had landed at the bottom of the stairs, her head on the last step and her body on the floor. A bone protruded from her right forearm, and her left leg lay at an odd angle to her body.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.