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
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
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
“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
The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen 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
To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“It has been smooth sail for me,the wind of grace is blowing always and all way.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form… — George B. Ward Copy Share Image
God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound… — Dana Rongione Copy Share Image
“the Church in her worst time still hath a blessed verdure of grace about her; nay, she has sometimes exhibited most verdure… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“So you see that the eye of the intellect has received supernatural light, infused by grace, by which the doctors and saints… — Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“To find grace, we need not look so very far ahead. We need only look at the present moment. God gives us… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin 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 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
What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are… — Thomas Merton 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
“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
“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
“0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. — Lewis B. Smedes 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
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery. — Michael J. Knowles 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
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity. — Anonymous 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
“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
“Our invitation is to look deeper than we do, to intuit and honor what so often lies beneath a surface of denial,… — Edwina Gateley Copy Share Image
Strive for a vibrant life.Dream,explore & discover beauty of spirit inside you that is going to make you look like a person… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“If you remember nothing else from this story, remember this: Even those marked by judgment—be it a physical or emotional scar—can be… — Jocelyn Green Copy Share Image
O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn… — Thomas Ken Copy Share Image
“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least… — Thomas Hooker Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
