Quotes About Grace

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

Finesse is catching the baseball on the edge of your glove when you're turning two, making the one-handed grabs and shoestring tackles by running across the field in football. And finesse is what I bring to fighting.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

My mother. She's 65 now and she has immaculate style. And that's exactly what I want to be.

As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace)

Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you're okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you're here, you're surviving; this moment is okay.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.