Quotes About Grace

Kindness is a kind of magic, in return we get love which is eternal.

She's absolutely beautiful. Her hope is beautiful. The smile on her face is beautiful. The tears streaming down her cheeks are beautiful.Herloveisbeautiful.

The moon has been loving us with her dreamy smile for billions of years, but still she is not tired.

A smile is the best make-up.

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.

Tai Chi experts, like figures on a marvelous clock, who seem in their slow-motion way to be untelling time.

Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.

We must constantly remember: we spoil and God restores. How ugly is the way in which we spoil, and how good and how beautiful is the way in which He restores.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

October 19th. (To Miss Grace Bedell) Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is received. I regret the necessity to of saying I have no daughter. I have three sons--one seventeen, one nine, and one seven. They with their mother constitute my whole family. As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection if I were to begin now?

God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.

August] 26th. [1862] I am a patient man, always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.

Denn die reinigendste, die allerschönste Blume der Liebe, aber nur der höchsten Liebe, ist das Verzeihen, darum wird es auch immer an Gott gefunden und an Müttern. Schöne Herzen tun es öfter--schlechte nie.

Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments from an oval platter to a plate, item by item. It reaffirms my faith in the sanity of superfluous civilization.

to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

God's Riches At Christ's Expense.

When did Jesus start loving you? He never did—He has always loved you. He loved you before time began. He loved you before He swung this planet into space. You were in the heart and mind of God before the foundation of the world.

I've learned that it's fine to have expectations, and dreams are wonderful, but once in a while, it would be good to have something come my way without having to fight for it.

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.