“Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!”
Marquis De Custine
“Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home”
John Newton
“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
Mark Twain
“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that can be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other”
Reinhold Niebuhr
“Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.”
Jonathan Edwards
“In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet”
Alice Abrams
“Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”
Jackie Windspear
