grace

And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 1:16-17, KJV

But pleasing themselves, they much displease You, not only taking pleasure in things not good, as if good, but in Your good things, as though their own; or even if as Your, yet as though for their own merits; or even if as though from Your grace, yet not with brotherly rejoicing, but envying that grace to others.

Augustine, Confessions

For the confessions of my past sins, which You have forgiven and covered, that You might bless me in You, changing my soul by Faith and Your Sacrament, when read and heard, stir up the heart, that it sleep not in despair and say "I cannot," but awake in the love of Your mercy and the sweetness of Your grace, whereby whoso is weak, is strong, when by it he became conscious of his own weakness.

Augustine, Confessions

To Your grace I ascribe also whatsoever I have not done of evil;

Augustine, Confessions

By the help of his grace I am become safe, because The unseen king saith to me, 'Thou art the soul of the world.' The essence of the meaning of 'He' has filled my heart and soul.

Rumi

O self-worshipper! why lookest thou not to God, Who giveth power to thy hand? If by thy striving thou dost aught of good, take not the credit to thyself; know it to be by the grace of God. Thou standest not by thine own strength —- from the Invisible art thou sustained each moment.

Saadi, Bustan

It is best that the ignorant should be abased, For it is fitting that the ignorant should find disgrace.

Saadi, Scroll of Wisdom

If their purgation did consist in words, they are as innocent as grace itself

Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1, Scene 3

Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so.

Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3

A lack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 4, Scene 4

I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 5

The flesh being proud, Desire doth fight with Grace, For there it revels

Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

Those that with cords, knives, drams, precipitance, Weary of this world's light, have to themselves Been death's most horrid agents, humane grace Affords them dust and shadow.

Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 1, Scene 1

But, indeed, words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 1

O, from what power hast thou this powerful might With insufficiency my heart to sway? To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness doth not grace the day? Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill, That in the very refuse of thy deeds There is such strength and warrantise of skill, That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds? Who taught thee how to make me love thee more, The more I hear and see just cause of hate? O, though I love what others do abhor, With others thou shouldst not abhor my state: If thy unworthiness rais'd love in me, More worthy I to be belov'd of thee.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 150 <3

Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness. Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;

Shakespeare, Sonnet 96