“Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.”

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

Believe things, rather than man.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

The judge is nothing but the law speaking.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.

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.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition

Your highest female grace is silence.