Quotes by Grace Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace. Ann Voskamp mountain grace christian Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play? Anna Cora Mowatt grace play watches It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self Anne Bogart risk grace self Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires. Anne Bradstreet iron grace men One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. Anne Hutchinson covenant grace may Laughter is carbonated holiness. Anne Lamott laughter humor grace But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on. Anne Lamott grace want wind Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own. Anne Lamott different-universes grace mean Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there. Anne Lamott grateful light grace Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. Anne Lamott grace wings water Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. Anne Lamott owners this-life grace Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. Anne Lamott mountain grace air Laughter is the key that grace has arrived. Anne Lamott laughter keys grace You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way. Anne Lamott pain grace children Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. Anne Lamott stitches hem grace But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace. Anne Michaels grace darkness world I think one must do the thing -- whatever it is (and it changes from time to time) -- that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace. Anne Morrow Lindbergh grace world thinking What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength. Annie Besant body grace mind The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. Annie Dillard grace trying thinking As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque forms and events -- in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy. Annie Dillard tangled grace beautiful «23456789101112»