Pastoral Resources

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

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.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

Grace can and does have a history.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.