"A sweet lie is more gracious for us……" — Anton Chekhov

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• Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. — Johann Sebastian Bach
• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon
• When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we… — Richard Sibbes
• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His… — Francis of Assisi
• In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability… — Augustus Hopkins Strong
• If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and… — Charles R. Swindoll
• The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching… — George Gissing
• That gracious thing, made up of tears and light. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government… — Richard Henry Lee
• A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer. — Charles Spurgeon
• How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and… — James Thomas Fields

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