Top 238 Graces Quotes & Sayings

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

Love is the queen of all the Christain graces.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

The Rosary is a treasure of graces

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In Everyday Graces, Karen has complied a treasure chest of tales that helps us raise the next generation of children into adults of kind compassion. Everyday Graces is a must for families that desire their children to become people of character.

I'm talking to people all of the time. So it hasn't really had a big impact. Access is never my main concern anyway. If you keep digging and making phone calls you can get stories and not have to rely on the good graces of the Pentagon spokesperson. I am not in his good graces.

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

I'm not trying to get in good graces of anybody. I just want to be myself and be the guy that helps out in the community, because that's who I am.

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell

We have to be focused on not just who is in [Donald's Trump] favor and who is in his good graces and who looks right or what the palace intrigue is.

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... The poorest Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.

I am often surprised when I think to count my graces, for the more I count, the more there seem to be. And if pride in my accomplishments is the emotion that I naturally feel when I focus on my gifts, gratitude is the emotion I feel as I become aware of the many graces that have shaped me and my gifts.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast.

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

Survival activates miracles when a person relies on the graces of hope and faith.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

God has given me so much that I feel I must give to those who are less fortunate. I don't do it to be in anyone's good graces.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.