Pastoral Resources

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

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

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.