#gracious

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God. ↗

— Roger Williams

#antichrist #convert #did #ever #forth

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

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#benign #better #business #droop #gracious

Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today. ↗

— Tom Atkins

#gracious #guy #jimmy #still #then

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious? ↗

— Joseph Prince

#god #gracious #holy #interesting

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#accept #advice #give #graciously #great

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#favor #graciously #refuse

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. ↗

— Venerable Bede

#attain #before #day #delight #drink

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#almighty #almighty god #believed #considerate #constitution

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#greatest-generation #magnanimity #noblesse-oblige #education