Grace

Glory be to the Graces! ~ ‎Robert Herrick

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.

• Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace.
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Discipleship (1937).

• Whatever he did, was done with so much ease,
  In him alone 'twas natural to please.
  • John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), Part I, line 27.

• Let grace and goodness be the principal lodestone 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.

• And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 43.

• 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).

• From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
  And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
  • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 152.

• 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).

• God give him grace to groan!
  • William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-96), Act IV, scene 3, line 21.

• O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
  That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
  • William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act I, scene 1, line 206.

• Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,
  Before, behind thee and on every hand,
  Enwheel thee round!
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 1, line 85.

• For several virtues
  Have I lik'd several women; never any
  With so full soul, but some defect in her
  Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd,
  And put it to the foil.
  • William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-12), Act III, scene 1, line 42.

• He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
  • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 3, line 88.

• 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).

• Narcissus is the glory of his race:
  For who does nothing with a better grace?
  • Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire IV, line 85.

• Sola gratia
  • Anonymous, one of the Five solas of the Protestant Reformation.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 335.

• There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
  • John Bradford (seeing a criminal pass by), in his Writings, Volume II. Pub. by Parker Society, Cambridge, 1853. Biog. notice, p. 13. Credited to him also by Dean Farrar, Eternal Hope, Fourth Sermon. S. O. VII. 269. 351. Credited also to Baxter, Bunyan, John Wesley.

• An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
  • Book of Common Prayer, Catechism.

• Ye are fallen from grace.
  • Galatians, V, 4.

• Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
  The chief of a thousand for grace.
  • Kate Franklin, Life at Olympus, Godey's Lady's Book, Volume XXIII, p. 33.

• The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.
  • Horace and James Smith, Punch's Holiday.