#grace

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#found #grace #i #i do #leave

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see. ↗

— Jude Law

#back #because #been #drive #early

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father. ↗

— Ang Lee

#disgraceful #father #film #study

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#behind #common #common sense #deal #genius

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#full #ghosts #gloom #graces #haunted

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#every #giveth #grace #heart #his

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#civic #decline #drifting #effectiveness #fall

She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and posses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instils grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as you. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#saving-grace #beauty

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#disgrace #few #grace #history #last

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. ↗

— Martin Luther

#confidence #could #daring #faith #god