- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grace Quotes
On faith, poise and quiet kindness.
One quote here traces a personal religious conversion built around learning a traditional Catholic devotion practiced with rosary beads. An older, more literary line argues that grace, like a rich jewel, is wasted the moment it's kept hidden rather than shared.
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The commercial space industry owes a huge debt to Patti Grace Smith. There might not be a commercial spaceflight industry were it not for Patti's leadership.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at my grandmother, and she has this grace and class about her. When she walks into a room and sits down and talks to someone. Everything she does in life. I feel that women of her generation were really taught that.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, it's pretending I'm somebody else to get into a different head space. A lot of times, it's just, 'Who do I want to be onstage tonight? Is it going to be Marc Bolan, or is it going to be Grace Jones, or Roy Orbison?'
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grace happens every day.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the arts has always been sort of my saving grace.
- Icons
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- Nov 07, 2020