''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
Beauty and grace command the world.
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man — weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we were sinners and enemies we have been treated as sons and heirs.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ''accepting'' and ''willing'' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.