Grace Quotes - Page 59

Behind her, Jace moved out into the water with a contained grace that barely rippled the surface. Simon behind him, was splashing and cursing.

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.

If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.