#grace

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#etiquette-and-attitude #grace #manners #parenting #perfection

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#kindness #beauty

Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What’s good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what’s beautiful, when the way back seems impossible. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#grit #pathway #spirit #beauty

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#death #grace #joy #life #promise

Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fish #grace #gracious #true-beauty #beauty

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#beauty #grace #beauty

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ↗

— Karl Barth

#closest thing #god #grace #laughter #thing

Courtiers never look like fools, or engage in hard work if they can’t make it look easy. Conquering the world is a sweaty business, and perspiration always betrays. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #grace #business

In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the child of his mother and father, it seemed like something that would never change. Yet look how easily he had lost that rank and privilege! A person's fortune could turn at any time. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#change #fall-from-grace #privilege #change

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#courage #grace #courage