Quotes About Grace

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

Some guys look better as they get older.

I love Olivia De Havilland. She is forever a lady.

Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.

Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

It is okay to feel in control one minute and out of control the next. We have to love ourselves fully and give ourselves grace to feel. It is the only way we can truly heal.

One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.

Ballroom dancing is so articulate. Your hips have to be a certain way, legs have to be straight at one time and bent another.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. She's everything a woman should be.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.

Open yourself to extreme, excessive, extravagant grace.

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But also every woman.

Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may.

Genie währt länger als Schönheit.