Quotes About Grace

I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village.

The Left wields blackface as a political cudgel, feigning offense and making excuses according to political convenience. Conservatives need not embrace the same cynical and vindictive tactics. We would prefer to live in a society marked by grace and civility rather than one marked by petty opportunism and cancel culture.

I love Viola Davis.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like a tornado, the other, gentle with grace and dignity.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.