Nature of Beauty Quotes · Page 30

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

— John Owen

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

— Alexander Pope

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

— Lewis B. Smedes

“It has been smooth sail for me,the wind of grace is blowing always and all way.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

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

“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.”

— Dean Koontz

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

— Anonymous

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.

— Samuel Johnson

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield…

— Hubert Van Zeller

...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

“The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of…

— Jim Corbett

True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the…

— Frederic Dan Huntington

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

“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

“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

“We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us,” Junot Díaz has said, and it can create blindness…

— Sarah Lewis

“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw…

— Charles Dickens

“It's a powerful statement and one that Whitney sings with a grandeur that approaches the sublime. Its universal message crosses all boundaries…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep. Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest…

— Victor Hugo

“While this book makes a similar if more modest claim for the social significance of its own fundamentally ambivalent “sentiments of disenchantment”…

— Sianne Ngai

Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or…

— Joseph Sittler

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very…

— Anonymous

“By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed…

— Dianne Sylvan

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.

— William Burkitt

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

— Michael J. Knowles

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

— Francois Fenelon

“Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?" From…

— Zack Love

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

— Victor Hugo

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

Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

— Anonymous

“When grace is given it comes to us as joy, maybe, but it can also be earned, I am convinced, through the…

— May Sarton

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

— Theocritus

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute…

— Hafez

“The more we accept the holy gospel of Christ Jesus , the more we know God's grace.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

— David Romtvedt

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

— Charles Bukowski

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

— Alexander Pope