#grace

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. ↗

— William Ames

#appropriately #body #capable #first #god

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#grace #politics #putting #state #yourself

The grace of God is courtesy. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#god #grace

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#ambition #aspired #graceful #indulgent #love

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#easier #fame #gracefully #growing #growing old

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#civil #graceful #nobility #order #ornament

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#god #graces #just #just be #out

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#blessings #deserve #god #gospel #grace

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him. ↗

— John Clayton

#fact #god #grace #him #instructed

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disgrace #honor #i #much #neither