"Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place."
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"I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh."
"Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!"
"But by the grace of God I am what I am"
"Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting."
"Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law."
"Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us."
"Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus."
"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life."
"All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him."
"He had a face like a blessing."
"I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast."
"All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter."
"I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me."
"To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd."
"He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural."
"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so."
"What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it."
"Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places."
"There but for the grace of God, goes God."