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Grace Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come…
- Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
- I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where…
- Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
- Laughter is carbonated holiness.
- Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
- Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
- Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
- Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as…
- You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely…
- I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's…
- I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations,…
- It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas…
- Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to…
- But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina…
More Grace Quotes
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. — Saint Augustine
- I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry… — Diane Ackerman
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. — Drew Barrymore
- Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. — Karl Barth
- God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. — Saul Bellow
- My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him. — Rachel Bilson