#grace

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117). ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#disgrace #j-m-coetzee #africa

Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends Hes throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth. And we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter; then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#grace #man #power #sin #sovereignty

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #grace #inspirational

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ↗

— Aeschylus

#awful #cannot #comes #despair #drop

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful. ↗

— Aeschylus

#dead #deeds #disgraceful #evil #good

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually. ↗

— Aeschylus

#enemy #hand #hate #ill #mutually

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#bring #costly #death #disgrace #disruptive

No one can disgrace us but ourselves. ↗

— Josh Billings

#ourselves #us

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. ↗

— John Keats

#displayed #energies #fine #grace #hated

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved. ↗

— Anselm of Canterbury

#free #free will #grace #nothing #remove