#grace

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. ↗

— John Owen

#equal #fair #gifts #grace #higher

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us. ↗

— Joseph Prince

#condemns #grace #law #saves #us

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

— Paddy Ashdown

#grace #politics #putting #state #yourself

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#gracefully #i #into #like #manipulate

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#god #graces #men #nurses #other

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

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

— Pierre Corneille

#disgrace #honor #i #much #neither

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#airs #american #american idol #choose #dinner

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. ↗

— John Donne

#face #grace #hath #i #nor

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful... ↗