As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of… — alisa hope wagner Copy Share Image
Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect… — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make… — John Divola Copy Share Image
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The women, too, exhibit a high level of grace, intelligence, strength, and beauty.” — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
“This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.” — Maya Van Wagenen Copy Share Image
The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“There's something about her. It's not her smile or grace, It's not her beauty or race, It's not her scent or warm… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace,… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Living out and sharing our beautiful stories every day—both the failures and the successes—reveals the incredible ways God is moving in our… — Courtney Westlake Copy Share Image
The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore,… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“Whatever you pay attention to will grow. If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“She remembered how, as a young man, she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled. "Now I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Let me breathe You in, Let me taste the meaning of sublime; Let my soul mingle with You, Let me be one… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
“The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“...A reminder of the human acts of which we are all capable, the brutal and the tender, the base and the sublime.” — Human Acts Han Kang Copy Share Image
“Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“L.S. Jones @lovenutumoncho 15h "Poetry is the triumphant spirit demonstrating it's grace in spite it's painful journey to expression!" LSJONES” — L.S. Jones Copy Share Image
“God delights to do ... impossible things through improbable people to impart exceeding grace to undeserving recipients.” — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“My grace is sufficient for thee. The words soothed her soul like a healing balm.” — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
“We were enveloped in that state of grace where one melds with the flow of Nature. Having once tasted it, one craves… — Jack Loeffler Copy Share Image
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I offer this succinct synopsis of Bonhoeffer on the Christian life: We live in love by grace as the church-community—in, through, and… — Stephen J. Nichols Copy Share Image
