Quotes About Grace

BAKKHAI : Holiness is a word I love to hear, it sounds like wings to me, wings brushing the world, grazing my life.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy.

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when others had nothing. Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor. The poor have always been the favourites of God and his saints, but I believe that is is one of the special achievements of Grace to sanctify the whole of life, riches included.

Sometimes, Helena continued, I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and emperors and take power for themselves. Instead of letting one victim bear this frightful curse they will take it all on themselves, each one of them. Think of the misery of a whole world possessed of Power without Grace.

But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. One can only hope to see one step ahead. But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable — like things in the schoolroom, so bad they are unpunishable, that only Mummy could deal with — the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.

The Grace of God is in courtesy';

Lady Marchmain,10 no I am not on her side; but God is, who suffers fools gladly;

The Church isn't a cult for a few heroes. It is the whole of fallen mankind redeemed.

a handsome Frenchwoman abounding in commercial good nature.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains...

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

She is the most charming person in the world. That's all. I refuse to amplify. Excepting- she's perfect.

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

Quando te sentires com vontade de criticar alguém, lembra-te disto: nem todos tiveram neste mundo as vantagens que tu tiveste.