“The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.” MovingKnownArmsLovelyNecksTendernessKinshipPrettinessLovely Woman Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone” IfsHeartWould BeMovingLanguageGrowthSinForgetGraceProgressImpossibleConsciousNotesSaintLovelyGraciousSanctityUnawareness Author:Bill Vaughan