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"Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches."
"The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman."
"If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path."
"In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us, be it agreeable or disagreeable. By the grace of God, we belong to Him; what else should we desire except to please Him?"
"The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault."
"The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things."
"Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature."
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
"Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God."
"O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire."
"Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory."
"If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you."
"There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
"All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty."
"To women silence gives their proper grace."
"There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers."
"Get low; grace will meet you there."
"The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace."
"He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love."
"It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity."
