#grace

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#natural-resources #nature #nature

The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#grace-and-law #morality #motivational

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give. ↗

— Jack Cade

#ask #bribes #case #cause #come

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#elegance #glamour #grace #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#faith

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#displayed #favored #gods #graceful #hard

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#board #church #grace #i #i think

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union. ↗

— George Mason

#agreed #because #bring #disgraceful #i

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#because #cannot #condition #equally #grace

Holy fellatio! You are standing there licking him up with your eyes! Do you freaking hear the old seventies porn music playing in your head? ↗

— Christine Zolendz

#lea #shane #music