#grace

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

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#cute #graceful #i #kind #me

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

— Danielle Steel

#believe #grace #gracefully #i #i do

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself. ↗

— John Strachan

#cheerfully #christ #death #disgrace #every

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #day #even #good #good people

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#always #essentially #everything #god #grace

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#even #fall #grace #harm #inclined

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#ashamed #dying #graces #humble #let us

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#course #grace #how #i #peace