Quotes About Grace

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.