Quotes About Grace

the holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.

A trait si-a iubit si asta face si acum! In trandafirul asta de-o frumusete perfecta nu mai e nici o petala nedeschisa, nici o picatura de roua pe care n-au vazut-o razele soarelui.

Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor

Yesterday you were gods. Today you are mortal. Your death is my gift to you. Accept it with grace and humility.

Who would have thought that the singular whole of her forgiveness was a more valuable gift than a hundred of her parts?

But then who is he to decide if Dirk truly was soulless? Better to err on the side of grace.

meu anjo – my angel

Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.

Yes! thus will you be, queen of the Graces, After the last sacraments, When you go beneath grass and luxuriant flowers, To molder among the bones of the dead.  Then, O my beauty! say to the worms who will Devour you with kisses, That I have kept the form and the divine essence Of my decomposed love!

de la belleza realzada por el vestuario.

Así el enamorado de la vida universal entra en la multitud como en una inmensa reserva de electricidad. También se lo puede comparar con un espejo tan grande como esa multitud; con un caleidoscopio dotado de conciencia que, con cada movimiento, representa la vida múltiple y la gracia cambiante de los elementos de la vida. Es un yo insaciable de no-yo que, a cada instante, lo capta y lo expresa en imágenes más vivas que la vida misma, siempre inestable y fugaz.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

TV can make me ill in five minutes, but I can look at an animal for hours and find nothing but grace and glory, life as it should be.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole, love means eventual pain victory means eventual defeat grace means eventual slovenliness, there's no way out...you see, you understand?

There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

there is hardly anything as beautiful as a woman in a long dress not even the sunrise not even the geese flying south in the long V formation in the bright freshness of early morning.

What is your philosophy of life?" "Think as little as possible." "Anything else?" "When you can't think of anything else to do, be kind.

Jos et keksi mitä tekisit, niin ole kiltisti. (Auringonvalo, tässä olen, s. 217)

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

When God looks at you in Christ, He does not see your impurities; He sees you in Christ.