Pastoral Resources

I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.

Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of my son's action.

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.