The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
—Steven Weinberg
So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
—Tom Robbins
If you open yourself to grace working through you, then grace works on you and in you as well. Grace is what has kept me going.
—John Records
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
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
—Jackie Windspear
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
—Henry James
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
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
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