Pastoral Resources

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.