Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“It’s a matter of growth, of deepening, and an ever growing surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“And she's like, you know, the 'Grace' in U2's song, the one that 'carries the world on her hips'.” - Diana Rigsby,… — L.A. Kragie Copy Share Image
“As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“His lithe and lethal grace is hypnotic, too, in the way he moves like a leopard in the African grass, even if… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
This is how I define grace: youre on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence of grace.… — Shea Darian Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A Lady's Guide to Beauty and Etiquette was starting to feel less like her saving grace and more like a nuisance. A… — Adalyn Grace Copy Share Image
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Beauty - the beauty Peter craves - is this, then: a human bundle of accidental grace and doom and hope. Mizzy must… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. — Homer Copy Share Image
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There is little but the sublime to help us through the ordinary in life. Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier)” — Antoine Laurain Copy Share Image
Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him. — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. — Edna Hong Copy Share Image
God is the source of all grace. He does not ask if we are worthy, but He pours upon us the riches… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
