Quotes About Grace

Small kindnesses make you a bigger person.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

Lady-bird! Lady-bird! pretty one, stay: Come sit on my finger, so happy and gay. With me shall no mischief betide thee; No harm would I do thee, no foeman is near: I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee.

I love old poems, ladies who lived in past times. Life was maybe not easier, but people took time to idle sometime, and mostly they took time admiring a sunrise, the flowers opening their hearts, etc.

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.

She had what we call tact, which has been defined as the art of making your company feel at home even if you wish they were.

I have never seen a wildflower in all its beauty be ashamed of where it grows.

Angels mend our patchwork hearts with threads of love.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Meridian sunbeams tempt him to unfold His radiant glories, azure, green and gold: He treads as if, some solemn music near, His measured step were govern'd by his ear; And seems to say—Ye meaner fowl, give place, I am all splendour, dignity, and grace!

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in...

Prayer is for the grateful and for the grateful-to-be.

Teach me, Father, how to go Softly as the grasses grow; Hush my soul to meet the shock Of the wild world as a rock; But my spirit, propt with power, Make as simple as a flower. Let the dry heart fill its cup, Like a poppy looking up; Let life lightly wear her crown, Like a poppy looking down, When its heart is filled with dew, And its life begins anew...

Some knees bend only under the load of a heavy heart; some eyes are opened only after the head is bowed.

God loves an idle rainbow, No less than labouring seas.

...the height of sophistication is simplicity.

Skipping is the closest we may ever get to flying like the angels.

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.

It is the flow of a communal action that is full of the overflowing grace of God, present in gestures and concrete signs as well as in words.

But I was in a hurry, so I let him drive. I wasn't thinking about formalities then. I knew I ought to get back home quickly. Anyhow, he was so respectful I knew he was all right." "Hmm! There are respectful crooks sometimes! But never mind; go on.

Help us for Christ's sake to have our eyes open to sin, so that we shall always know when we are not pleasing Thee.

Indian summer is like a woman.