Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

John Updike

'We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world toward one another. It is clear, however, that color and race are at once the most important and the most enigmatic.'

John Hope Franklin

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves.

Rachel Carson

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

William Wells Brown

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Damon Runyon

Frankly I love the word 'nigga.' It is my favorite word in the English language because no other word incites more controversy today.

Todd Boyd

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Margaret Atwood

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

Grace under Pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.

Leo Tolstoy

No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.

Real Live Preacher

The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.

J. Russell Lynes

I stood before my creator years ago and asked for his forgiveness, grace and redemption.

Tom Malin

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Lindsay Lohan

But for the grace of God there goes John Bradford.

John Bradford

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Bonnie Jewell

We hope he continues to grace the city and plays a major role at the center. That will enhance the center and the city.

Tom Owen

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

Barry Mcguire

There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

We're running on grace and fumes.

Jerry Kramer

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

Pat Conroy

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

George F. Will

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fall Into Grace. Generally speaking, he's upbeat and ready for life.

R. Bartley Halloran

Kim said they barely escaped by the grace of God.

Jordan Smith

Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death.

John Newton

Is it as meticulous and graceful as a human touch would be? No, it's not.

Andy Parsons

A kind of lightness and grace that was in the music-making.

Michael Steinberg

It improves their coordination, their poise, their grace.

Marlene Torres

It's important that residents know about the grace period.

Cathy Riddle

It's not going to happen. The grace period will be adequate for us to do a workaround.

Henry Bunsow

The saving grace here is the view.

Valerie Petersen

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

Aimee Semple Mcpherson

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

Philip Henry

I saw where the fire department was at and knew there was no way they could get to them with a ladder and, by the grace of God, He just gave me the energy and the power to climb up those things.

Marvin Harris

And, ... he grew with dignity and with grace.

Mary Shea

Yes, by the grace of God.

Ayub Khan

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

St. Francis Of Assisi

We've been experiencing God's grace — that's how I would describe it.

Susan Uhrik

Ryan is the exact opposite of that. He's one of the more graceful divers I have seen.

Gary Guadagnino

One thing that someone said was, 'There not but for the Grace of God go I.' And it really hit home with us that if it wasn't him, it could have been any one of us.

Brandon Gilbert

Will & Grace.

Cheryl Hines

I wanted to prove that I could, and by the grace of God I did.

Pat Day

Madison Grace was the one she reacted the most to.

Heather Lardie

We are certain that Dana will tackle this challenge with the grace, courage and determination that have become her hallmark.

Kathy Lewis

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

Jonathan Edwards

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Richard Carlson

They will know the truth that only God's grace got them in.

John Fischer

I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child.

Jane Taylor

Wonderful hymns. I'll Fly Away. Amazing Grace.

Barbary Chaapel

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Vincent Mcnabb

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden

Only 40 to 50 percent of employers choose to adopt the grace period.

Ken Dixon

Her rhythm is not as graceful as it is on the court.

Monique Currie

The people in the party wanted to give him a graceful exit and he wouldn't let them.

Peter Mccormick

We say grace and we say Amen. If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn.

Hank Williams Jr.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Pindar

Grace is an amazing person.

Jamie Bird

Nathan's guts and fighting qualities were our saving grace.

Paul Cullen

It's been a really strong bond. We have a lot of kids who go to Grace Church.

Heather Evans

We talked a lot to Grace before the game and told her she needed to be ready to go.

Kelly Matthews

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Karl Barth

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

Harold Nicholas

Grace is an incredible front woman. She's multitalented. A beautiful face never hurts.

Alex Crothers

Grace can and does have a history.

Karl Rahner

America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

Katharine Lee Bates

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

Karl Rahner

GRACE should give us almost revolutionary advancement.

Chris Cox

Father Grace has shown up for 'Pray for Snow' parties.

Sue Davis

That's Bill Nelson's saving grace, because the focus is on Katherine Harris.

David E. Johnson

There but for the grace of God go [I].

John Bradford

He was demanding that we call him 'your grace'. He even demanded that the principal call him 'your grace'.

Chantel Leonhart

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus of Chios

I wanted to know that when I let Grace go, I did everything in my power to keep her here.

Shannon Kenitz

He?s a very graceful athlete. Not too many athletes can get their body to flow and bend in that manner. It was a big-time athletic movement.

Byron Myers

We have the skills. Filipino skaters have the natural style and grace.

Joseph Santos

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol Ben Judah

There but for the grace of God goes God.

Sir Winston Churchill

May God give grace to our family.

Suzanne Vitadamo

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

I've achieved basically all of the goals - by the grace of God - that I wanted to in music.

Ll Cool J

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

It is not the places that grace men, but men the places.

Agesilaus

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer

Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve and Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.

Brendan Roberts

May you grow in dignity and with grace.

Tim Shea

We couldn't get out, couldn't find a way out. That was the most devastating thing of all. By the grace of God, I just went down a stairway and found a way to get out and let everybody know how to get out.

Blanche Jones

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

Henry James

It will scare you to heavens - it will scare you to heavens. It's a wonder -- it's God's grace that we are here.

Judy Mazulaitis

The Mir has lived a wonderful life and must end it in a graceful way.

Yuri Semyonov

We go out to play for His honor, His glory and His grace. He's the number one fan in the stands.

Jamey Carroll

We left not knowing what to expect. But by the grace of God, and Archbishop O'Malley, we got the thumbs up.

Mary Murray

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Eugene O'neill

Barbara talks about how the kids are having fun; we're all having fun, but deep down inside she and I are both going, 'Boy, there but for the grace of God could go any of us.'

Eric Roberts

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Elie Wiesel

Our village is now wiped out. By God's grace I'm still alive.

Eugene Pilo