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“That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."”

“By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.”

Men Needs Kind Self Age Spiritual Individual Interest Grace Harmony Proof Business Success Vocation Self Interest Individual Success

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”

Men Hate Evil Grace Remedy Persistent Grace Of God Calamity

Author:Cyprian

“The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.”

People Earth Heaven Sides Church Cities Grace Glory Built Rivers Boat Streams Both Sides Triumphant Militant Ferry

Book:The works of Augustus M. Toplady

Source: The works of Augustus M. Toplady

“Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential.”

“You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.”

“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.”

Want Asks Wish Prayer Grace Mercy Ill Deny Grants

Author:James Merrick

“The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.”

Faces Moving Song Grace Flower Hair Bird Fairs Glad Grass Autumn Stem Rice Lilies Maidens Nodding Bracelet

Book:Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works

Source: Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works

“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.”

Grace Holy Creatures Bones Doctrine Offensive Skeletons Holy Life

Author:Adoniram Judson Gordon

“We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.”

Hard Desire Half Break Grace Lovers Mediocrity Salt Mediocre Giver Complacency

Book:The Flowering Tree

Source: The Flowering Tree

“Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.”

People Doe Force Christ Grace Subjects Willing Kings Devoted

Book:Alarm to the Unconverted

Source: Alarm to the Unconverted

“Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.”

World Heart Christ Grace Thrones Converting

Book:An Alarm to the Unconverted

Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted

“A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.”

Men Wells May Spirit Grace Color Materials Tools Instruments Paint Acceptable Marble

Book:A Sure Guide to Heaven

Source: A Sure Guide to Heaven

“A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.”

Men May Justice Sin Grace Favors Righteousness Satisfying Gross Wrath Pardon Seeming Obtaining

Book:An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise

Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise

“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

“If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?”

Ifs World Has Beens Spirit Growth Christ Prayer Grace Blood Divine Command Obedience Brotherhood Habitual

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.”

Opinion Grace Divine Doctrine Observation Divine Grace

Book:A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

“It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair.”

Needs God Earth Jesus Christ Lord Grace Despair Eternal Jesus Christ Sinner Righteousness Reign Our Lord Eternal Life

Book:A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

“Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.”

People Knows Way Trying Felt My Own Healing Grace Goodness Deserve Tunes Grace Of God Pipe

Book:What's So Amazing about Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.”

Mind Firsts Suffering Heaven Grace Exercise Office Bones Toil Great Office

Author:Mencius

“There is no short cut to God; sadhana must be performed regularly and with devotion. It is our own effort which will enable us to experience the grace of God which is being showered on us all the time. Therefore, whatever spare time you get, use it to seek God. If you create peace in your own heart by doing sadhana, then that will have a positive effect on your family, your work and so on. The peace and love of God will overflow out of your heart and encourage others to move on the right path.”

Ifs Heart Use Moving Effort Path Grace Cutting Effects And Love Devotion Gods Will God Love Our Family Spares Grace Of God Right Path Peace And Love Overflow Spare Time Short Cuts

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.”

Ifs Feels Light Given Creativity Sun Creative Grace Mystery Unexpected Deserving

Author:P. L. Travers

“The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.”

World Way Believe Home Lasts Grace Limits Gains All Things Insight Opening Granted Realms Scope Doom Absent Protective Tangible Concealed Opening Up Lingering Spaciousness Remoteness

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.”

Knows Way Mean Order Break Creativity Grace

Author:Alan Arkin

“I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.”

Self My Own Virtue Grace Bears Miracle Sacred Affection Witness Lifts Tenderness Emergence Sanctify Improbability

Author:Ursula Goodenough

“Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.”

Christ Grace Honour

Author:T. B. Joshua

“By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”

Believe I Believe Lord Grace Land Despair Goodness

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.”

Kind Hard Past Saws Grace Imagine Eternity Reach Out Imagine That Kinds Of Love

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.”

People Ifs Knows Way May Found Nations Grace Praying Sight Thee I Pray

Author:Moses

“I have the grace of providence to be poor.”

Poor Grace Providence

Author:Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

“Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.”

World War Lost Successful Grace Hero War Of The Worlds Soviet World War Ii World War I Commanders Pantheon

Author:Georgy Zhukov

“Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender.”

Heart Love Is Grace Mystery Demand Expectations Ultimate Miracle Surrender Paradox Lions Yearning Requirements Inclination Presentation Lambs Threshold Affinity Ultimate Power

Author:Glenda Green

“With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.”

Pain Grace Childhood Special Periods Unique Adults Core Ignorant Bliss Lament Ignorant Bliss

Author:Barry Privett

“I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.”

Grace Birth Grace Of God Texan

Author:Larry Gatlin

“There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.”

Children Moments Seems Running Found Waiting Darkness Grace Difficulty Worth Waiting For

Author:Paul David Tripp

“Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.”

Beautiful Joy Grace Laughter Grace Of God Liberated

Author:Karl Barth

“If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.”

Ifs Sin Views Grace God's Grace

Author:Timothy Keller

“Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.”

Firsts Grace Sticks Stuck Grace Of God God First Put God First

Author:Denzel Washington

“In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.”

Self Universe Perfect Wonder Grace Air Mystery Silent Superiors Symbols Fascination Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Flawless Bland Perfect Beauty Impersonality

Book:Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction

Source: Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction

“Prayer is the opening of the heart so we can receive all these good things that God has for us every day. It's like sitting down at a table that God has prepared for us. He says, 'I have everything you need today - all the grace, all the wisdom, all the provision that you need - but sit down at the table and eat. Don't be so rushed and so busy and try to live without My supply.'”

Needs Trying Heart Today Prayer Grace Sitting Tables Good Things Prepared Busy Opening Provision Sitting Down

Author:Jim Cymbala

“When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.”

Giving Firsts Able Spiritual Powerful Grace Comfort Casts Visitation

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“You may say, 'God doesn't hate anybody. God is love.' No, my friend. You need to understand something. Jesus Christ taught, the prophets taught, the apostles taught this: that apart from the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord the only thing left for you is the wrath, the fierce anger of God because of your rebellion and your sin.”

Needs May Hate Jesus Left Christ Sin Lord Grace Taught My Friends Jesus Christ Prophet Rebellion Fierce Wrath Grace Of God Our Lord Apostles God Is Love

Author:Paul Washer

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

Men Giving Enough Use Jesus Christ Forget Grace Share Glory Jesus Christ Praise Instruments Forget Him Christ Alone

Author:A. B. Simpson

“In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.”

“Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”

Men Life Play Light Success Grace He Man England This Day Success In Life God's Grace Martyrdom Martyred

Author:Hugh Latimer

“We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.”

Want Inspirational Kind Choices Grace

Author:Christopher Lee

“There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.”

Should Made Names Stuff Grace Sea Land Rivers Tired Species Fishes Monsters Cruelty Boat Awe Lakes Fishing Immense Scotland Unnatural Trout Coups

Author:Arnold Gingrich

“But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.”

Writing Self America Father Names Sports Lines My Own Prayer Saws Grace Written Sea Rivers Fishes Versions Boat Lakes Fishing Ancestor Scottish Fly Fishing Mongolia Cursive Guidos

Author:Jessica Maxwell

“It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.”

Firsts Running Grace Air Tree Sea Sweet Demand Spring Rivers Blue Fishes Boat Hills Ran Lakes Fishing Spokes Assertion Brooks Dummy

Book:Crocker's Hole: From

Source: Crocker's Hole: From

“The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...