--- title: "14 Like Grace Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 14 Like Grace quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Like Grace sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/richelle-e-goodrich-180_extraordinary_you-are-the-only-being-exactly-like-you_2288502.jpg" --- > [“You are the only being exactly like you who will ever grace this earth. That makes you extraordinary.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-e-goodrich/you-are-the-only-being-exactly-like-you-who-will-ever-grace-this/) [Richelle E. Goodrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-e-goodrich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/richelle-e-goodrich-180_extraordinary_you-are-the-only-being-exactly-like-you_2288502.jpg) > [Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/love-is-holy-because-it-is-like-grace-the-worthiness-of-its-object-is/) [Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/marilynne-robinson-602_grace_love-is-holy-because-it-is-like-grace-th_3140414.png) > [“style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-heti/style-is-about-knowing-what-you-like-and-why-you-like-it-more-than/) [Sheila Heti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-heti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f30/sheila-heti-2776_fashion_style-is-about-knowing-what-you-like-and_75417.jpg) > [Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-suckling/beauties-that-from-worth-arise-are-like-the-grace-of-deities/) [John Suckling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-suckling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d5/john-suckling-27538_arise_beauties-that-from-worth-arise-are-like_2889609.png) > [“Strange that such a small kindness felt like grace.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeline-miller/strange-that-such-a-small-kindness-felt-like-grace/) [Madeline Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeline-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/madeline-miller-2938_grace_strange-that-such-a-small-kindness-felt_103888.jpg) > [Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/hail-the-small-courtesies-of-life-for-smooth-do-ye-make-the-road-of/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d3/laurence-sterne-1405_beauty_hail-the-small-courtesies-of-life-for-sm_245684.jpg) > [“This is what the kingdom of God looks like. It looks like humility. It looks like grace. It looks like service. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-a-boyd/this-is-what-the-kingdom-of-god-looks-like-it-looks-like-humility-it/) [Gregory A. Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-a-boyd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d46/gregory-a-boyd-9424_grace_this-is-what-the-kingdom-of-god-looks-li_2262954.jpg) > [In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/junot-diaz/in-the-months-that-follow-you-bend-to-the-work-because-it-feels-like/) [Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/junot-diaz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/junot-diaz-531_cheater_in-the-months-that-follow-you-bend-to-th_482391.jpg) > [“That's about it. In the months that follow you bend to the work. Because it feels like hope, like grace--- and because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/junot-diaz/that-s-about-it-in-the-months-that-follow-you-bend-to-the-work/) [Junot Díaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/junot-diaz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/junot-diaz-531_hope_that-s-about-it-in-the-months-that-follo_1629340.jpg) > [I always liked how people like Grace Jones and Annie Lennox pushed it with the videos. I'm not the most stylish person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessie-ware/i-always-liked-how-people-like-grace-jones-and-annie-lennox-pushed-it/) [Jessie Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessie-ware/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a3/jessie-ware-16666_annie_i-always-liked-how-people-like-grace-jon_1097489.png) > [“It probably wasn’t entirely her fault that she was such a bitter person. Having a name like Grace can be a serious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sorin-suciu/it-probably-wasn-t-entirely-her-fault-that-she-was-such-a-bitter/) [Sorin Suciu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sorin-suciu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caf/sorin-suciu-23250_bitterness_it-probably-wasn-t-entirely-her-fault-th_3091208.jpg) > [I got interested in public service because I really felt like 'there but for the grace of God go I' in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-allred/i-got-interested-in-public-service-because-i-really-felt-like-there/) [Colin Allred](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-allred/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c8/colin-allred-5523_god_i-got-interested-in-public-service-becau_1220754.jpg) > [“Everyone experiences grace, even if they don't realize it. It's kind of like Moby's music. You could ask your average sixty-something-year-old retired…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cathleen-falsani/everyone-experiences-grace-even-if-they-don-t-realize-it-it-s-kind-of/) [Cathleen Falsani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cathleen-falsani/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/cathleen-falsani-20278_american-express_everyone-experiences-grace-even-if-they_731713.png) > [“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/a-faint-music-by-robert-hass-maybe-you-need-to-write-a-poem-about/) [Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/robert-hass-3548_grace_a-faint-music-by-robert-hass-maybe-you-n_297690.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-grace/#itemlist", "name": "Like Grace Quotes", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“You are the only being exactly like you who will ever grace this earth. That makes you extraordinary.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richelle E. 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We only need the ears to hear it and the eyes to see it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cathleen Falsani" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cathleen-falsani/everyone-experiences-grace-even-if-they-don-t-realize-it-it-s-kind-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/cathleen-falsani-20278_american-express_everyone-experiences-grace-even-if-they_731713.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/cathleen-falsani-20278_american-express_everyone-experiences-grace-even-if-they_731713.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/cathleen-falsani-20278_american-express_everyone-experiences-grace-even-if-they_731713.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everyone experiences grace, even if they don't realize it. It's kind of like Moby's music. 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When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine has studied her face and its defects remorselessly, and the pain they thought might, as a token of their earnestness, release them from themselves has lost its novelty and not released them, and they have begun to think, kindly and distantly, watching the others go about their days— likes and dislikes, reasons, habits, fears— that self-love is the one weedy stalk of every human blossoming, and understood, therefore, why they had been, all their lives, in such a fury to defend it, and that no one— except some almost inconceivable saint in his pool of poverty and silence—can escape this violent, automatic life’s companion ever, maybe then, ordinary light, faint music under things, a hovering like grace appears. As in the story a friend told once about the time he tried to kill himself. His girl had left him. Bees in the heart, then scorpions, maggots, and then ash. He climbed onto the jumping girder of the bridge, the bay side, a blue, lucid afternoon. And in the salt air he thought about the word “seafood,” that there was something faintly ridiculous about it. No one said “landfood.” He thought it was degrading to the rainbow perch he’d reeled in gleaming from the cliffs, the black rockbass, scales like polished carbon, in beds of kelp along the coast—and he realized that the reason for the word was crabs, or mussels, clams. Otherwise the restaurants could just put “fish” up on their signs, and when he woke—he’d slept for hours, curled up on the girder like a child—the sun was going down and he felt a little better, and afraid. He put on the jacket he’d used for a pillow, climbed over the railing carefully, and drove home to an empty house. There was a pair of her lemon yellow panties hanging on a doorknob. He studied them. Much-washed. A faint russet in the crotch that made him sick with rage and grief. He knew more or less where she was. A flat somewhere on Russian Hill. They’d have just finished making love. She’d have tears in her eyes and touch his jawbone gratefully. “God,” she’d say, “you are so good for me.” Winking lights, a foggy view downhill toward the harbor and the bay. “You’re sad,” he’d say. “Yes.” “Thinking about Nick?” “Yes,” she’d say and cry. “I tried so hard,” sobbing now, “I really tried so hard.” And then he’d hold her for a while— Guatemalan weavings from his fieldwork on the wall— and then they’d fuck again, and she would cry some more, and go to sleep. And he, he would play that scene once only, once and a half, and tell himself that he was going to carry it for a very long time and that there was nothing he could do but carry it. He went out onto the porch, and listened to the forest in the summer dark, madrone bark cracking and curling as the cold came up. It’s not the story though, not the friend leaning toward you, saying “And then I realized—,” which is the part of stories one never quite believes. I had the idea that the world’s so full of pain it must sometimes make a kind of singing. And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps— First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Hass" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/a-faint-music-by-robert-hass-maybe-you-need-to-write-a-poem-about/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/robert-hass-3548_grace_a-faint-music-by-robert-hass-maybe-you-n_297690.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/robert-hass-3548_grace_a-faint-music-by-robert-hass-maybe-you-n_297690.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/robert-hass-3548_grace_a-faint-music-by-robert-hass-maybe-you-n_297690.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. 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