Common Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

— Ian Mcewan

“Absolution – yes, I grasp the notion, but absolution is not the same as redemption, is it? The former is passive. The latter demands…

— Steven Erikson

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

— Anonymous

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

— May Sarton

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

— George Crabbe

Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages…

— Jeremy Collier

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...

— Lord Chesterfield

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak…

— Joseph Joubert

If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he…

— Max Muller

All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or…

— John Wesley

Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of…

— David A. Bednar