Grace Quotes - page 2

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. (Charles Cooley)
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. View quote
Karl Barth
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. View quote
Karl Barth
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. View quote
William Hazlitt
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. View quote
Georges Rouault
If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O teach my heart to find that better way. View quote
Alexander Pope
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. View quote
Edmund Burke
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season. (Robert Frost)
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. View quote
A. Whitney Brown
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. View quote
John Dryden
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. View quote
Linus Torvalds
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. View quote
John Bradford
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much. View quote
John Newton
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. View quote
Lindsay Lohan
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. View quote
George Steiner
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. (William Wordsworth)
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. View quote
Eliza Farnham
Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf. View quote
John Townsend
Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. View quote
Franz Werfel
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. View quote
Walter Scott
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