“So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.” PeopleMenLooksMaySelfHandsWinningSpeakBitsWalksBrainGraceFailingStreetsLike YouFineSpeechFilledShiningDelightCharmOne ManCrownsSelf ControlImpressHandsomeAnother ManAssemblySpeaks OutDeathlessFaltering Book:The odyssey Source: The odyssey
“True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.” PeopleMenShouldKindSaidBodyJoyUnderstandingLove IsGracePerceptionMen And WomenAll ThingsFleshGentleDelicateMysticalOur LoveFlavorTrue Love IsAll Things New Author:Dorothy Day
“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensSelfLostPrayerSinEffortLordGraceDelightDrivenChristian InspirationalToleranceScriptureCompromiseObedienceHolinessConvinceCherishSuperstitionsSelf ControlRelaxationSlidesDisobedienceLiberatedGodlinessSinningLegalismGodlessness Author:D. A. Carson
“I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.” PeopleMayFeltNaturalSecretDemocracyGraceChildhoodConditionsAppealsRoutineFascismSplendidPessimistInfancy Author:Norman Mailer
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingLongCountryShowsPoliticalLeaderGraceAlivePrioritiesOur CountryMaturityAgain And AgainPollsTry AgainPolitical LeadersReally Long Author:Peggy Noonan
“I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.” PeopleBelieveMadeBigsHappensGraceTablesGratefulBeliever Author:Alton Brown
“Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).” PeopleSelfJesusChurchPartyGraceDoorsStrangeBecomingStandingResponsibleAngryKingdomsPhenomenonIronicInvitedKingdom Of GodIrresponsibleGuardingUninvitedStrange Phenomena Author:Mike Yaconelli
“Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.” PeopleKnowsWantHumansValuesMemoriesToo MuchGraceAdventureDevelopmentOffersUniqueIndiaMerePainfulDelightIndianEncountersDeniedDecayAssuranceCourtesyHuman DevelopmentValue Of LifeEruptionIndividualisticSqualorButchery Author:V. S. Naipaul
“The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.” PeopleGivingWellsUseCitiesSupportGraceStreetsDiversityEverydayDelightParksNeighborhoodUsersGiving BackVacuity Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.” PeopleKnowsFactsFeelingsRealizingGraceUsualElevenChatter Author:A. S. Byatt
“The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.” PeopleWayReasonChristianJoyGraceKeysHungerAwakeningChristian LivingThirstSovereignSovereigntyHunger And ThirstHunger For GodThirst For God Author:John Piper
“Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera.” PeopleIfsHumansLittlesSongDiesBornSpaceGraceTreeBirdShotsLondonHungWoeLadMorbidEtcetera Author:Ezra Pound
“Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanToo MuchGraceOne ThingPoetGoes OnInstinctMetaphorHintsParablesDiffidence Author:Robert Frost
“Don't touch her," he growled. There was a note in his voice that would of scared me if it had been directed toward me. He shoved me behind him, putting his body protectively in front of mine with my back to the table. Guardians came at us from all directions,and Dimitri began dispatching them with the same deadly grace that had once made people call him a god.” PeopleIfsMadeBodyVoiceBehindsGraceFrontsMinesTablesNotesScaredGuardianDimitri Book:Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?” “Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.” PeopleFeelsTryingTwoSeemsEyeMotherSoundDarkLevelsPowerfulGraceFineBlueLuckAngryAddMarchSecondsAlliesMaryRescueDoomedInteriorsObligedBlue EyesBad LuckRescue MeMother MaryJuju Author:Ann Aguirre
“Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.” PeopleHardCareGraceGrowingIgnoranceSightMereDustAshes Author:John Muir
“Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping.” PeopleGracePicksDevilAppropriateCharlieWhipsSnapsKidnappingReaperAmazing Grace Author:Jeaniene Frost
“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.” PeopleKnowsGivingFeelingsSeemsEyeActionYoungAsksGraceConsequenceEndlessGenerousCompanionshipEverlastingMiraculousStraightforward Author:Albert Camus
“Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.” PeopleIfsLoveHeartMayImportantBookAgeLastsFilmImaginationSinNovelGraceMoralityDespairCatholicAlbumsDoctrineContemporaryRedemptionSymbolsSpokesConcertsDogmaPopePropositionsTheologianImageryTunnelsWoodyWhirlwindSpringsteenFilm And MusicWoody Allen Film Author:Brennan Manning