Grace

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Glory be to the Graces!

Grace is a word referring to elegant movement, poise or balance, and also to free and undeserved favor, especially in Christian theology, in reference to the divine grace of God. It is derived from the Latin word gratus, and is also used to refer to any of the Gratiae or Charites of Greek and Roman mythology.

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Every time your enemy fires a curse, you must fire a blessing, and so you are to bombard back and forth with this kind of artillery. The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.
- Henry Ward Beecher, in Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaeous Discourses (1858), p. 274

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.
- Thomas Fuller, in The Holy State and the Prophane State (1642), this has sometimes been misattributed to John Dryden, as early as its occurrence in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards

Grace is beauty in motion, or rather grace regulates the air, the attitudes and movements of beauty.
- Henry Fuseli, Aphorism 43, in The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (1831) Vol. III, edited by John Knowles

Nature makes no parade of her means— hence all studied grace is unnatural.
- Henry Fuseli, Aphorism 44, in The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (1831) Vol. III, edited by John Knowles

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful, because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment — divested of affectation, and free from all pretence.
- Henry Fuseli, Aphorism 45, in The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (1831) Vol. III, edited by John Knowles

Proportion, or symmetry, is the basis of beauty ; propriety, of grace.
- Henry Fuseli, Aphorism 46, in The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (1831) Vol. III, edited by John Knowles

Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
- William Hazlitt, in "On Manner" in The Round Table‎ (1817)

Glory be to the Graces!
That doe in publike places,
Drive thence what ere encumbers,
The listning to my numbers.
Honour be to the Graces!
Who doe with sweet embraces,
Shew they are well contented
With what I have invented.
- ‎Robert Herrick in "A Psalme or Hymne to the Graces" in Hesperides : Or the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick (1846), p. 70

Worship be to the Graces!
Who do from sowre faces,
And lungs that wo'd infect me,
For evermore protect me.
- ‎Robert Herrick in "A Psalme or Hymne to the Graces" in Hesperides : Or the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick (1846), p. 70

Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That sav'd a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
- John Newton in "Amazing Grace" in Olney Hymns (1779)

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev'd;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ'd!
- John Newton in "Amazing Grace" in Olney Hymns (1779)

Thro' many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
- John Newton in "Amazing Grace" in Olney Hymns (1779)

You’ve told me the way, and now I’m trying to get there
And this life sentence that I’m serving
I admit, that I’m every bit deserving
But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair.
- Reliant K, "Be My Escape", on Mmhmm (2004)

She carries a pearl
In perfect condition.
What once was hers,
What once was friction,
What left a mark,
No longer stains,
Because Grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things.
- U2, "Grace", on All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)