Quotes About Grace

Time passed, and a morning came when Grace woke up at Yeotown feeling, if not quite happy, at least without a stifling blanket of unhappiness. This blanket had hitherto weighed upon her like something physical, so that there had been days when she had hardly been able to rise from under it and get out of bed.

God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.

For Ellid born of Eitha had a face like a flower for loveliness and a body like a doe for grace; her mind was steadfast as a sword and her spirit was bright as its skylit blade. Cuin

Oh, who am I lying to? My supply of grace wouldn't overflow an acorn cap.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

If God were attainable with the intelligence, how unjust it would be! It would have made easy the task of the wise and the great of this world, and would have made knowledge of God all but impossible for the little ones, the poor, and the ignorant. But God himself has found the way to be equally accessible to everybody. His revelation comes in love, in that faculty which we can all share.

Christ has freed us from the past with its infinite complexities. In Him we have become new creatures and begun a new life, owing nothing to anyone, writing in our book, Now I am beginning... What matter is your past, your sin? Now walk in the newness you have found and sin no more.

A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

How beautiful life would be if we were able to love those who deserve it.

Qué hermosa sería la vida si fuésemos capaces de querer a quien lo merece.

Si regala qualcosa per il piacere di farlo,non perché qualcuno lo meriti o meno

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them.

En este perro mundo —pensó—, cuando te haces viejo y te duele hasta el sentido común, un mendrugo de amabilidad, o de lástima, es un manjar de dioses.»

Clara mochte schlecht spielen, nicht im Takt, und bei der Hälfte der Noten danebengreifen, für mich aber klang ihre Serenade wundervoll, und sie mit einem angedeuteten Lächeln und zur Seite geneigten Kopf aufrecht vor den Tasten sitzen zu sehen erschien mit wir eine Vision des Himmels.

One can covert only a sinner, never a saint.

Los regalos se hacen por gusto del que regala no por mérito del que recibe

lo que cuenta a veces no es lo que se da, sino lo que se cede. La sombra del viento

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!

Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. At any rate, how nice to be well dressed and among friends and in a state where poems pop out by themselves.

Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage.

There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.

Mrs. Saville had a superb swoop of bosom. It started directly beneath the hollow of her neck and finished just a smidgen above what, if only a hint of indentation had been present, could have passed for her waist.