Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend..
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe..
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refu….
Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He rightly notes the aesthet….
I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence in my life. But I can't develop any ….
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself..
The greatest danger to our future is apathy..
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hel….
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 ….
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloo….
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite o….
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it..
Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them..
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it ….
We all need grace in the face of each other..
Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his….
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace..
Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that ….
The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a fea….
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive..
A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enter….