#grace

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

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

#before #culture #grace #literature #poetry

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

— Mahalia Jackson

#god #grace #hands #how #sing

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

— Jewel

#grace #guess #i #more #more and more

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. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ceremonial #ceremonies #desire #ever #exclusively

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#background #ballet #because #body #centered

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ↗

— May Sarton

#back #circles #down #everything #forces

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#beauty #form #freedom #grace #influence

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#front #god #grace #infinitely #nobler

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#believe #grace #gracefully #i #i do

But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#also #back #back up #fall #get