Grace

"Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it."

"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."

"Every time your enemy fires a curse, you must fire a blessing, and so you are to bombard back and forth with this kind of artillery. The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will."

"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace."

"When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace."

"Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please."

"Let grace and goodness be the principal lodestone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue."

"Grace is beauty in motion, or rather grace regulates the air, the attitudes and movements of beauty."

"Nature makes no parade of her means— hence all studied grace is unnatural."

"All actions and attitudes of children are graceful, because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment — divested of affectation, and free from all pretence."

"Proportion, or symmetry, is the basis of beauty; propriety, of grace."

"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."

"Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."

"Glory be to the Graces! That doe in publike places, Drive thence what ere encumbers, The listning to my numbers. Honour be to the Graces! Who doe with sweet embraces, Shew they are well contented With what I have invented."

"Worship be to the Graces! Who do from sowre faces, And lungs that wo'd infect me, For evermore protect me."

"Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for humanity. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for me."

"Instead of giving the impression, in however small a degree, that there are such difficulties about Christianity that an apology for it is needed if men are to be persuaded to enter into it, rather to represent it as a thing so infinitely lofty, as in truth it is, that the apology belongs in another place, is required, that is to say, of us for the fact that we venture to call ourselves Christians, or it transforms itself into a contrite confession that we have God to thank if we merely assume to regard ourselves as a Christian. But neither must this ever be forgotten: Christianity is just as lenient as it is austere, just as lenient, that is to say, infinitely lenient. When the infinite requirement is heard and upheld, heard and upheld in all its infinitude, then grace is offered, or rather grace offers itself, and to it the individual, each for himself, as I also do, can flee for refuge."

"There is a great analogy between grace and genius, for genius is a grace. The real man of genius is the one who acts by grace or by impulsion, without ever contemplating himself and without ever saying to himself: Yes! It is by grace that I act."

"And grace that won who saw to wish her stay."

"Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) That sav'd a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see."

"'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears reliev'd; How precious did that grace appear, The hour I first believ'd!"

"Thro' many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home."

"In this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our part, we be often dead as to man’s doom in earth; but in the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be."

"All our life is in three: in the first we have our Being, in the second we have our Increasing, and in the third we have our Fulfilling: the first is Nature, the second is Mercy, and the third is Grace."

"According to the Christian tradition, grace is not earned. Grace is not merited. It’s not something we deserve. Rather, grace is the free and benevolent favor of God as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings."

"We don’t earn grace. We're all sinners. We don't deserve it. But God gives it to us anyway."

"The path of grace involves an open mind -- but, more importantly, an open heart. [...] If we can find that grace, anything is possible. If we can tap that grace, everything can change."

"Grace comes secretly into the soul after the hearing of the message of salvation"

"Let me not so much, so much be lost; just to see the hue, grace, glory gone Off the face of my beloved as I’d wake and be conscious."

"From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art."

"You've told me the way, and now I'm trying to get there And this life sentence that I'm serving I admit, that I'm every bit deserving But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair."

"God give him grace to groan!"

"O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!"

"Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee and on every hand, Enwheel thee round!"

"For several virtues Have I lik'd several women; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, And put it to the foil."

"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."

"Grace […] is a participation in the Divine Nature."

"If you should find me dead one morning, don't worry. It's just that papa le bon Dieu has come to fetch me. Without doubt it is a great grace to receive the Sacraments, but when God does not permit it, that is fine just the same. All is Grace."

"She carries a pearl In perfect condition. What once was hers, What once was friction, What left a mark, No longer stains, Because Grace makes beauty Out of ugly things."

"Find the Grace in the things you can’t change, and help somebody if you can."

"Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?"

"Sola gratia"

"There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford."

"An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace."

"Ye are fallen from grace."

"Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace."

"The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity."