Pastoral Resources

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.