More quotations tagged with “grace”
Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply.
—Richard Rohr in The Universal Christ
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace.
—Paul Murray in Skippy Dies
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
—Charles Caleb Colton
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
—Henry James
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.
—Thomas Cahill