“. . . people will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics.”
“I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.”
“I often see through things right to the apparition itself.”
“I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.”
“I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.”
“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.”
“No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.”
“You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.”
“New worlds to gain; my life is to survive, and be alive for you,”
All that we have and don't have is a grace. Even the awareness of grace is a grace in which we should give thanks."
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting swimming fencing boxing walking playing dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.
“Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.”
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
“Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!”
something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace
It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.
Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.