Gracious Quotes
273 quotes by 231 authors
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He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O…
— Said Nursi
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So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality. “You mean,†said Fighting Prawn, “for not killing you?†“Yes,†said Leonard. “It…
— Dave Barry
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The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American…
— Brennan Manning
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I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in…
— Patricia Briggs
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I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those…
— Ken Wilber
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Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my…
— Charlaine Harris
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So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being…
— William Shakespeare
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In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse…
— Helen Keller
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Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize…
— C.S. Lewis
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God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
— John Wilmot
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Goodness gracious me,†exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and…
— Gail Carriger
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God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.…
— R C Sproul
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There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then…
— Anthony Hope
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Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are…
— Gail Carriger
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You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after…
— Ally Carter
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We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.
— John Wesley
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I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an…
— Jim Butcher
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A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
— Anton Chekhov
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I have never been to a court s gracious as the one Neha keeps. Dmitri played a knife through his fingers, one of the three…
— Nalini Singh
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