Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

Richard Baxter

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

William Wordsworth

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Richard Gere

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Rebecca Wells

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

Roald Amundsen

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Richard Rohr

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

Anton LaVey

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

Wallace Stevens

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

William Cowper

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

Roseanne Barr

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.

Saint Augustine

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

Zhuangzi

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

William Gurnall

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

William Ralph Inge

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

William Booth

There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.

William Wordsworth

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

Rob Bell

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.

Robert Jeffress

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

John Milton

All is, if I have grace to use it so, / As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.

Emily Dickinson

A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

Ann Hood

When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'

Sathya Baba

Every one of you must be saved, sooner or later, by the grace of the All Merciful.

Heather Evans

It's been a really strong bond. We have a lot of kids who go to Grace Church.

Shannon Kenitz

I wanted to know that when I let Grace go, I did everything in my power to keep her here.