Quotes About Grace

Because if you're going to do someone a favor, her father used to tell her, you might as well do it graciously.

He began to see the situation from another angle. An assignment had been given him. Someone's life, a small set of lives had been placed in the palm of his hand. Maybe he would never have any more purpose than this: to accept the assignment gracefully, lovingly, and do the best he could with it.

In the dining room, the tulips had started hanging their heads over the rim of their vase as if they were admiring their own reflections in the polished tabletop.

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow; you catch the grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed.

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. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then--and only then--it is handed to you.

beauty and grace [in nature] are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Their song reminds me of a child's neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, tweet. I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting.

The creator is not puritan. A creature need not work for a living; creatures may simply steal and suck and be blessed for all that with a share—an enormous share—of the sunlight and air.

La naturaleza, al menos, no necesitaba de operaciones para ser bella. Simplemente lo era.

Beauty doesn't ask for attention

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

It seemed to me that the two remaining masts almost leaned forward, out of the vertical, so great was the pressure of wind in sails. Nothing broke, nothing tore—so beautiful was our position and so constant the current of air. It made the blood sing in my veins, and I knew I could be a sailor for life, if I chose. Yes, I could gladly wait a lifetime, a full sixteen years more, for such a sensation again. Without our effort, grace moved us forward.

The abundance mindset makes it easier to be graceful.

Siapa pun bisa tertarik oleh yang cantik-cantik dan memesona. Tetapi bisakah ketertarikan semacam itu disebut cinta kasih? Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping.

Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

Your Grace: Others come. Prepare for Invasion. —M.

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.