#grace

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! ↗

— Taylor Swift

#around #become #blonde #bow #continue

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

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again ↗

— John Green

#dreams #fault #fulfillment #hazel-grace-lancaster #in

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#life-lessons #navigation #life

One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#maggie-stiefvater #magic #sam #shiver #wolf

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#brought #grace #illness #me #nearer

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

#childhood #graceful #honorable #immortality #old

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

#also #custom #disgraceful #equality #injustice