Quotes About Gracious

Manners: The Gift of a Gracious

A moment is such a slight thing, I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.     Once

We can feel deficiency in what we know or do, we can hear inadequacy in our most painfully considered phrases. And gracious and chimerical beauty will bless us with the certainty that there is more to be hoped for, more to be tried.

It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing, I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.

hope they will be kind to you," said Paul. "No; — but I will be kind to them. I have conquered others by being kind, but I have never had much kindness myself. Did I not conquer you, sir, by being gentle and gracious to you? Ah

She was used to gracious leisure, attractive uselessness, nut-center chocolates, and a certain wonder as to why she was alive.

Edwards was persuaded from Scripture that "gracious affections do not tend to make men bold, forward, noisy, and boisterous; but rather to speak trembling."41 The eye of divine blessing is upon the meek and trembling: "This is the one to whom I will look [says the Lord]: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word" (Isa. 66:2).

No, I'm not,' I said ungraciously, for nobody really likes to be called a dear. There is something so very faint and dull about it.

Ah, but I'm not a gentleman," said the Marquis. "I have it on the best of authority that I am only a nobleman." "Good gracious, Vidal, who in the world dared to say such a thing?" cried his cousin, instantly diverted. "Mary," replied his lordship, pouring himself out a glass of wine.

I don't think I ever met anyone more entirely civilized - T E Lawrence

World champion always say 'yes please' - never hold back when someone need humble.

Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The LORD protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me. Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you. —PSALM 116:5–7

Jesus, gracious Lord of the harvest, send us into the harvest you've secured for yourself. What more could we possibly want for our church family? What other story would we choose for the rest of our days in this world than to be the means by which you gather your bride from the nations and prepare her for a future beyond our wildest dreams? Forgive us, focus us, and free us. We pray in your loving and triumphant name. Amen.

They said that of all the kings upon the earth he was the man most gracious and fair-minded, kindest to his people

It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

She was beautiful. As always she looked like she'd meant to head for somewhere else but at the last minute she'd decided to stop by you, as a favor, you understand.

The first part of Jeremiah's message was "remember." The second part was "realize." Here, we see the third part is "return." Because the heart of our Lord is so incredibly merciful and gracious, we don't have to work our way back to Him or prove our sincerity. All we have to do is turn to Him in humility and say, "Lord, I need You.

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

There are failings to which intensely religious people are sometimes prone, namely, indifference to the injustices of society, a willingness to overlook corruption within their own ranks, and a tendency to believe that attachment to God relieves one of the duty to be upright, civil, and gracious in one's dealings with human beings.

respect for truth and for other human beings of different opinions formed the foundation of a civil society in which one might disagree graciously and might reason together civilly and productively.