“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed… — Dianne Sylvan Copy Share Image
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. — William Burkitt Copy Share Image
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Words that I’m choosing in this season: passion, connection, meaning, love, grace, spirit.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“When warmth is in our hearts there is grace in us When love is in our hearts there is harmony in our… — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
“But depth runs in both directions: one who feels anguish deeply can live life deeply, too, and strive to help others do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world… — Geoffrey W Bromiley Copy Share Image
“C had spread a roadmap before me with many paths to choose from. I could go on a bitter journey to a… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this… — William Carey Copy Share Image
The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
“With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too ... If the rent in the canvas of our… — Ann Voscamp Copy Share Image
“For the good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
“But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need… — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
“All is grace. If the Almighty is the Almighty, the last words for each of us belongs to Him.” — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen Copy Share Image
“He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God. — John Owen Copy Share Image
A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The more we accept the holy gospel of Christ Jesus , the more we know God's grace.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus. — David Romtvedt Copy Share Image
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I realize how desperately I need grace, therefore I try to lavishly give it. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?" From… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
