Gracious Quotes

All I can do is be faithful with my gift, be faithful with anyone I talk to and let love be my guide and just be gracious with people. God will take care of the rest. I really believe that.

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.

God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile.

You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.

Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.

Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.

Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you

To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."

I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.

We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.

Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.