#grace

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#course #god #grace #grows #heart

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. ↗

— Simon Raven

#charity #disgraced #each #failed #fine

It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#away #because #enjoy #enough #even

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

— Thomas Erskine

#grace #gratitude #new #new testament #religion

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#inconvenient #man #poverty #us

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#any #disgraceful #drinking #excessive #habits

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ↗

— Og Mandino

#constantly #graces #i #improve #manners

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#forbear #friends #gaiety #give #grace

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress. ↗

— Peter Stone

#called #come #conclusion #congress #disgrace