Quotes of: Gracefulness Keyword

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Mother Teresa

We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are quite good and shout the Truth. Others see only the faintest whisper of it, or, in its absence remind us of the Trut...

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the Father; therefore, I say unto you, you shall receive grace for grace" (D&C 93:19–20). And then a few verses later the Lord says: And truth is kn...

Because He First Loved Us

Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the sm...

Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

Lorcan nodded, "It'ss a beautiful night," he said. "The stars have all come out for you, Darcy." He turned to go, then had a fresh thought. "Oh and Tempest, a word to the wise..." Grace was busily gathering up the edges of Darcy's train. "Yes?" she s...

Immortal War

By daily contrition, and habitual mortification of the flesh, man is day by day RENEWED, bearing heavenly fruits and celestial graces, of an inexplicable sweetness. Contrariwise, the pleasure of the world bringeth heaviness of heart, vexation of spir...

Johann Arndt: True Christianity

You survived as a child because others helped to maintain your life. It continues to be true today, even when you think you are abandoned, rejected, neglected, and unloved: the tomatoes you eat sustain you, the crossing guard stops the traffic so you...

Spot of Grace: Remarkable Stories of How You DO Make a Difference

God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my “monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wil...

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got...

Linger

Where will I find you now that my heart is yours? Where should I search? I don’t know where to look. You fill my heart with desire and love, The perfume of the lotus, the grace of a dove. But then the dove flies far, far away, All that is left is a...

Secret of the Mummy

Hazel Grace Lancaster: You know, this obsession you have, with being remembered? Augustus Waters: Don't get mad. Hazel Grace Lancaster: I am mad! I'm mad because I think you're special. And isn't that enough? You think that the only way to lead a mea...

The Fault in Our Stars

[after failing to bring the creature to life] Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Nothing. Inga: Oh, Doctor, I'm sorry. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No. No. Be of good cheer. If science teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our...

Young Frankenstein

Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches, your Grace. That’s my motto.

Cephrael's Hand

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

Collected Poems

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

Calling Romeo

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.

The Dark Divine

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

The Explicit Gospel

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

Em and The Big Hoom

Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.

Falling From Grace

...the end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.

Fearless