Quotes About Grace

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

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

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness.

I'm here to do whatever Mademoiselle might desire me to do for her," Ayesha said, in her soft voice. "It will be my pleasure to please Mademoiselle in every way.

As no man is beyond God's mercy, so none can be beyond mine[.]

To Get HAPPINESS in Life Must get CHRIST FIRST in Life.. - Roshan MV

Sprezzatura is a style of elegant nonchalance.

Mrs. Gley came down in a rush. She had on a kind of tea gown whose draperies flew out behind her, like the tail of a blowzy comet.

In every era, law and grace are operative and unchanging.

All individuals and groups seek, in one way or another, to answer the questions: what am I, who am I, and what explains my being and existence? The sound answer to these questions is to identify ourselves, above all else, religiously: I am a child of God by His sovereign grace. Then, I am a member of a family. Finally, I have a specific calling or vocation under God.

What right has a non-worldly, a discarnate, God to forgive any human being? … he is not to be found, his grace and mercy are not to be found, anywhere but in the past of human violence.

God doesn't love "even" you; though God certainly loves "even" me. Above all, God loves us, as we are together.

Just think, your not here by chance, but by God's choosing you. His hand formed you, He made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else -- your on of a kind. You lack nothing His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

cosmic benevolence.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. Roy Rogers

Una vez voló un clavel de su tallo hecho mariposa roja, y una estrella descendió fascinada y se tomó en flor de lis.

La elegancia no consiste en el exceso de adornos, ni en la profusión de alhajas.

As árvores sabem que a única razão da sua vida é viver. Vivem para viver. Viver é bom. Raízes mergulhadas na terra, não fazem planos de viagem. Estão felizes onde estão. Enfrentam seca e chuva, noite e dia, chuva e calor, com silenciosa tranquilidade, sem acusar, sem lamentar. E morrem também tranquilas, sem medo. Ah! Como as pessoas seriam mais belas e felizes se fossem como as árvores.