In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
Johannes Tauler

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
Thomas Erskine

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
Robert Hunter

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Bradley Whitford

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
Adam Clarke

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

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
Anthony Doerr

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
Neil Peart

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Petrarch

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
Petrarch

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
Samuel Rutherford