Quotes About Grace

It made me uncomfortable. I guess I've always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.

If I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude that, notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.

My name is now Christian; but my name at the first was Graceless.

there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it;

Hay en ese extraño caos que llamamos la vida algunas circunstancias y momentos absurdos en los cuales tomamos el Universo todo por una inmensa broma pesada, aunque no logremos percibir con claridad en qué consiste su gracia y sospechemos que nosotros mismos somos las víctimas de las burlas.

every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.

The wrath and the enmity of God are not for a moment in contradiction with God's reconciliatory will and love, and pointing to the wrath of God has the constant intention of disclosing to man God's grace and love in Christ. Indeed, the object even of the working of God's wrath itself is to cause his plan of redemption to triumph.

Man is justified not on the ground of what he is himself or has or achieves, but precisely on the ground of that which he does not possess and which he in himself does not have at his disposal, but which he must receive, obtain, by faith. Faith here stands over against works as that which is absolutely receptive and dependent,48 over against that which is productive, which is able to assert itself. The

The gospel is a power of God unto salvation, because therein the righteousness of God is revealed (Rom. 1: 16ft).

the object of God's justification, from whatever viewpoint one chooses to regard it, is not the righteous, but the ungodly.

If God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, why shouldn't we forgive? If we are faithful and just, we shall.

There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her.

If something rude of any kind was said, let the winds take it.

and now she appeared a woman, beautiful, tall and skilled at

Then Hector, stooping, seiz'd a pond'rous stone 490 That lay before the gates; 'twas broad below, But sharp above; and scarce two lab'ring men, The strongest, from the ground could raise it up, And load upon a wain; as men are now; But he unaided lifted it with ease, 495 So light it seem'd, by grace of Saturn's son. As in one hand a shepherd bears with ease A full-siz'd fleece, and scarcely feels the weight;

Afrodita, amante de la risa

Then thus the blue-eyed maid: O full of days!

Death can find nothing to expose in him that is not beautiful.

A royal robe he wore with graceful pride, A two-edged falchion threaten'd by his side, Embroider'd sandals glitter'd as he trod, And forth he moved, majestic as a god.

A maid, unmatch'd in manners as in face,Skill'd in each art, and crown'd with ev'ry grace:

To which end grace me with thine arms, since any shadow seen Of thy resemblance, all the pow'r of perjur'd Troy will fly, And so our tired friends will breathe: our fresh-set-on supply Will easily drive their wearied off.

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Good preservation is a life preserver thrown to us in a shipwreck. Good preservation keeps us in touch with the graces of this life. It's bricks and mortar, yes. It's arguments about true colors and authenticity and representation. But true preservation is like the hand that shelters a fire from the wind. It protects the spark of life. -- Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax, Twice