Quotes About Grace

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.

Tears mess up your makeup.

He had a face like a benediction.

Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Oh, if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is, how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.

He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.

Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world, that He sent His Son for its salvation, the Prince and Savior of the faithful, who washed and dried our wounds, and from Him also came that most sweet medicine, from which all the good things of salvation flow.