Grace Quotes

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. (Aeschylus)
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. View quote
Steven Weinberg
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. View quote
Juan Ramón Jiménez
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. View quote
Saul Bellow
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue! View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. View quote
John Updike
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. View quote
Anne Hutchinson
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. (James Thurber)
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. View quote
William Hazlitt
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. View quote
William Hazlitt
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. View quote
Petrarch
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. View quote
John Donne
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Courage is grace under pressure. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. View quote
George Santayana
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. View quote
Paul Theroux
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. View quote
Victor Hugo
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. View quote
Francis of Assisi
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. View quote
Walter Scott