It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, swee...ping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well may Mr. [David] Garrick be so celebrated, so universally admired--I had not any idea of so great a performer. Such ease! such... vivacity in his manner! such grace in his motions! such fire and meaning in his eyes!--I could hardly believe he had studied a written part, for every word seemed uttered from the impulse of the moment. ... his voice--so clear, so melodious, yet so wonderfully various in its tones!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gude grant that thou may aye inherit Thy mither's person, grace, an' merit,... An' thy poor worthless daddy's spirit, Without his failins; 'Twill please me mair to see and hear o't, Than stockit mailins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even of old the Christian world, so bitterly antagonistic to any ideas not specifically contained in their creeds and dogmas, made... an exception in Socrates' case. They recognized his likeness to Christ. He was the example that a soul could be Christlike not through grace, but by nature. Erasmus said, "Holy Socrates, pray for us." To know him is a help to knowing Christ, and it is not hard to know him. We can see him quite clearly. Plato who drew his portrait, could not, of course, keep himself out of it, any more than Christ's recorders could, but at least magic did not dog Plato's footsteps as it did everyone's footsteps when the Gospels were written. In the fourth century B.C. Greeks had no leaning to marvels. Also in the centuries that followed no one founded a church on Socrates and built up around him a theology and hung creeds and ceremonials upon him. To see what he was we do not have to brush anything away except a bit of Plato. We can use him as a stepping stone to Christ, a first aid in realizing what Christ was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in ...his quarrel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time w...as--to Plato and who else? The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and ...he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape... For thee thrice wider than for other men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old proverb is very well parted between my master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of God, sir, and he hath enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »