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“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.”

Source: House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

“They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.”

Culture Religious Grace Gains Add Sake Aesthetic

Author:John Campbell Shairp

“Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.”

Men Needs Feels Believe Littles Culture Found Grace Fortune Exceptional Good Fortune

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.”

Culture Grace Contrary Doctrine Biblical Degrading

Author:Kenneth Boa

“Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.”

Culture Grace Divine Greed Intimacy Replaced Sensibility Stains

Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?”

Doe Has Beens Art Hands Certain Culture Known Virtue Grace Special Art Is Vices Aesthetic Ugliness Utterance High Road

Author:Lewis Foreman Day

“We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God.”