Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe read more

Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that read more

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to read more

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

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

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

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be read more

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the
universe. To him, all good things--trout as well read more

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the
universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal
salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not
come easy.