Quotes About Grace

When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair, Forms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air; Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers. Bright pledge of peace and sunshine!

And here in the dust and dirt, O here, the lilies of His love appear.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

The hardest thing that enny man kan do iz tew fall down on the ice when it iz wet, and get up and praze the Lord.

You cannot earn or merit Salvation by any obedience. It is not the reordering of your desolated nature, or making yourself a fit temple of God, that can save you; for at your best you remain a ruin.

The grace of God is poetry...

waves are the tears of Christ breaking on the stones of the world.

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone we must appeal, and from Him alone expect mercy.

Prince Andrei was one of the best dancers of his day. Natasha danced exquisitely. Her little feet in their satin dancing shoes performed their role swiftly, lightly, as if they had wings, while her face was radiant and ecstatic with happiness.

He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul.

She danced the dance so well, so well indeed, so perfectly, that Anisya Fyodorovna, who handed her at once the kerchief she needed in the dance, had tears in her eyes, though she laughed as she watched that slender and graceful little countess, reared in silk and velvet, belonging to another world than hers, who was yet able to understand all that was in Anisya and her father and her mother and her aunt and every Russian soul.

Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to thy loving kindness.

God knows of love

When she went upstairs to dress, and looked into the looking glass, she noticed with joy that it was one of her good days, and that she was in complete possession of all her forces,—she needed this so for what lay before her: she was conscious of external composure and free grace in her movements.

Ah, don't grieve, little falcon,' he said with that tenderly melodious gentleness with which old Russian women speak. 'Don't grieve, little friend: you suffer an hour, you live an age! So it is, my dear. And we live here, thank God, with no offense. There's bad people, and there's good

Elena era tan bella que no sólo no había en ella sombra alguna de coquetería sino que, al contrario, parecía avergonzarse de su propia belleza, que sobresalía demasiado exultante y victoriosa; diríase que deseaba reducir sus efectos, aunque sin conseguirlo.

Rakes, those male Magdalenes, have a secret feeling of innocence similar to that which female Magdalenes have, based on the same hope of forgiveness. 'All will be forgiven her, for she loved much; and all will be forgiven him, for he enjoyed much.