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.

Flannery O’Connor

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Karl Barth

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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.

James Thurber

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

William Hazlitt

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

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.

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.

Alexander Pope

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.

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.

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.

Elie Wiesel

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

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.

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.

Linus Torvalds

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

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.

John Newton

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

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.

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.

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.

John Townsend

Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

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.

Walter Scott

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