Grace Quotes

“What is grace?” was asked forty years, had been a slave. “Grace”, he replied “is what I should call giving something for nothing.”

The king becoming graces are justice, verity, temperance, stableness, bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion, patience. Courage, fortitude.

Shakespeare.

Let grace and goodness be the principal load stone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas tat which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Dryden.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Cice.

The Christian grace are like perfumes, the more they are pressed, the sweeter they small; like stars that shine brightest in the dark; like trees which. The more they are shaken, the deeper root they take, and the more fruit they bear.

Beaumont.

The word “Grace” in an ungracious mouth is profane.

Shakespeare.

Virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real worth, like the load stone, never lose their power. These are the true graces, which are linked hand in hand, because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other.

Burton.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Jonathan Edwards.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weakness.

H.W. Beecher.

The growth of grace is like the polishing of metals. There is first an opaque surface; by and by you see a spark darting out, than a strong light; till at length it sends back a perfect image of the sun the shines upon it.

Payson.

There is no such way to attain to greater measure of grace as for a man to live up to the little grace he has.

Brooks.

Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.

T. Adams.

You pray for the graces of faith and hope and love; but prayer alone will not bring them. They must be wrought in you through labor and patience and suffering. They are not kept put up in bottles for us, to be had for the mere asking; they must be the outgrowth of the life. Prayer for them will be answered, but God will have us work out each one in the way of duty.

H.W. Beecher.

The being of grace must go before the increase of it; for there is no growth without life, and no building without a foundation.

Lavington.

As grace is first from god, so it is continually from him, as much as light is all day long from the sun. as well as at first dawn or at sun rising.

Jonathan Edwards.

As heart is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

T.Brooks.

Grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind.

Rochefoucauld.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Bacon.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Hazlitt.

All the actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the offspring of the moment, without affection, and free from all pretense.

Fuseli.

How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.

Coleridge.

It is graceful in a man to think and speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth.

Cicero.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.