Best grace & long Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart you are safe, or better than safe even, for a while at least. You are momentarily, in a state of grace.”

Feels Wells Heart Persons Long Self States Love Is Grace Safe Affection Immortal Right Person

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.”

Ifs Looks Long Done Running Faces Stars Vision Sun Clear Grace Tears Rivers Desert Look Up Thank God Tombs Blinded

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.”

Knows May Long Government Running Form Democracy Grace Prove Saving Efficient Long Runs Forms Of Government Saving Grace

Author:Bill Moyers

“Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.”

Firsts Long Accepting Grace Advice Interfere Good Advice

Author:Gene Brown

“Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.”

Long Sin Grace Mortals Refrain Mortal Sin

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Long I Can Self Pain Fall Felt Grace Pride Self Love My Heart Absence Unconscious Affected Protected Unbelief God's Presence

Author:Christian Wiman

“There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.”

Giving Long Past Desire Water Grace Lips Satisfied Opening Streams Proportion Thirst Grace Of God Intervals

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.”

Should Long Suffering Effort Grace Dying Patient Protected Honored Symptoms

Author:Marcia Angell

“At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.”

Long Lasts Grace Months Disgrace Munich

Author:F. L. Lucas

“But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice? Then for thine accent--what in sound can be So void of grace as dull monotony?”

Long Doe Faces Sound Virtue Grace Nice Prove Vices Dull Broads Clothings Void Accents Formal Sober Scorn Jest Monotony

Author:George Crabbe

“Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.”

Looks Long Hands Form Sides Common Virtue Rich Grace Masters Thousand Surface Brilliant Admire Acknowledge Diamond Bosoms Pebbles Roughness

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?”

Men May Children Littles Long States Use Shows Song Speak Teach Grace He Man Poet Weight Let Me Soldier Tongue Prose Verses Accents Foreigners

Book:An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

“I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.”

Long Grace Holiness Usefulness

Author:Robert E. Murray

“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Long Powerful Grace Genius Good Things Following Clever Things To Do Conventions Conventional Long Way Inventing Imposing Conventionality

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves-- Hides her fruit under them, hard to find. . . . . But by and by, when the flowers grow few And the fruits are dwindling and small to view-- Out she comes in her matron grace With the purple myriads of her race; Full of plenty from root to crown, Showering plenty her feet adown. While far over head hang gorgeously Large luscious berries of sanguine dye, For the best grows highest, always highest, Upon the mulberry-tree.”

Long Hard Grows Views Race Grace Tree Feet Flower Clothes Highest Roots Green Fruit Stealing Plenty Perceive Queens Crowns Purple Berries Sanguine Mulberry

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.”

Long Enough Novel Grace Cosmos Forgiven

Author:Norman Mailer

“I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.”

“We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.”

World Long Suffering Faith Religious Grace This World Mercy Accustomed Puzzled Bewildered Long Suffering Amazing Grace

Author:R. C. Sproul

“Do not stop praying as long as, by God's grace, the fire and the water have not been exhausted, for it may happen that never again in your whole life will you have such a chance to ask for the forgiveness for your sins.”

May Long Whole Happens Asks Water Chance Sin Fire Grace Praying Forgiveness Whole Life Exhausted God's Grace

Author:John Climacus

“I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.”

Believe Persons Long Enough Grace Sticks Optimistic Sincerely Optimistic Person

Author:Martin Sheen

“Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.”

Long Enough Grace Sticks

Author:Spike Lee

“I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.”

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.”

Heart Mean Long Hard Spirit Grows Religious Sin Grace Mercy Abuse Harder Neglect Customs Theologian Puritan

Author:Richard Baxter

“For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!”

“I could be dead or something even more tragic could have happened, but by God's grace I am still alive. I was hooked on Crystal Meth for eight years and did it every single day, all day long. I honestly have no idea how my heart survived or how I didn't suffer multiple overdoses, I don't get it.”

Years Heart Long Stills Ideas Suffering Grace Alive Happened My Heart Eight Honestly No Idea Tragic Multiple Survived Crystals Hooked God's Grace Overdose Crystal Meth

Author:Christian Hosoi

“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever brutalized, and yet he apologizes to his family for his long absence. That was such a profoundly moving moment capturing the triumph of dignity over the disgraceful behavior of those involved in the slave trade.”

“I'm on Grace And Frankie, which is also about that time in life, I'm realizing. But I would - so I guess I am sort of in that show. But there's something about The Golden Girls and the sort of multicam set and Bea Arthur that I just want to be around those ladies all day long, and I want to be on those comfy couches and want to sit in that kitchen in those chairs in those pastels, and I want to wear Blanche's outfits and it's just really... and I want to sit outside in that weird little courtyard.”

Want Littles Long Shows Girl Realizing Grace Golden Kitchen Chairs Couches Arthur Outfits Blanche Pastel Golden Girls

Author:June Diane Raphael

“I think China thinks information technology is less important than we think it is in the US, economically, and more important politically. And so Chinese internet companies are extremely political, they're protected behind the great firewall of China, and investment in Alibaba is good as long as Jack Ma stays in the good graces of the Chinese communist party. Alibaba is largely copying various business models from the US; they have combined some things in interesting new ways, but I think it's fundamentally a business that works because of the political protection you get in China.”

Thinking Long Important Political Interesting Party Technology Grace Internet Investment Various Protection Chinese Communist Information Technology

Author:Peter Thiel

“We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Long Country Shows Political Leader Grace Alive Priorities Our Country Maturity Again And Again Polls Try Again Political Leaders Really Long

Author:Peggy Noonan

“What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.”

“You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.”

Long Made Helping Remember Grace Saving Bad Things Coward Cowardice Prudence Lied God Help Saving Grace

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.”

Believe Heart Kind May Long Reason Use Seems Dies Grace Atheism Particular Tables Atheist Merit Seats Bargains Ripe Supper Just Smile Smile Because

Author:Stephen Levine

“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.”

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