Pastoral Resources

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.