Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Grace can and does have a history.
I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.