Grace Brooks Quotes

#1. pictured a goddess, she'd have looked like Grace Brooks, Emma's friend, the woman I'd become obsessed with because, whether she knew it or not, her life

Lacey Silks

#2. The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.

Thomas Brooks

#4. Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,

Chuck Berry

#5. Why do you get to act all crazy over a guy and I don't?" Anna asked.
"You have to earn the crazy," Grace said. "You're not old enough yet.

Jill Shalvis

#6. The backfire, my dear boy, of exiling the cleverest criminals of the nation to one place and requiring them to use their ingenuity is that they will
and you can't control what they do with it.

Sam Starbuck

#7. Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Thomas Brooks

#8. This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

Max Planck

#9. It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

Thomas Brooks

#10. Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as the lily ... and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works. - Ecclesiasticus 39:17-19

Douai-Rheims Bible

#11. Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

Thomas Brooks

#12. To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

Thomas Brooks

#13. Hell, Grace. I'd go to Australia to visit you. I don't care about the job, or where you lay your head down at night, as long as your heart's mine.

Jill Shalvis

#14. Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

Thomas Brooks

#15. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Thomas Brooks

#16. O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own.

Phillips Brooks

#17. There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

Thomas Brooks

#18. I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Phillips Brooks

#20. I'm the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me - all bearing for someone else to pick.

Frank Herbert

#21. When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

Thomas Brooks

#22. Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

Jimmy Carter

#23. The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

Chris Bell

#24. Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.

Thomas Brooks

#25. You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.

Vic S. Sussman

#26. It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

Ed Helms

#27. It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Thomas Brooks

#28. The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.

Laozi

#29. The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.

Meredith Brooks

#30. Every twinkling of light is light; every drop of water is water; every spark of fire is fire; every drop of honey is honey. So every drop of grace is grace;

Thomas Brooks

#31. The parental relationship sits outside the
the logic of meritocracy and is the closest humans come to grace.

David Brooks

#32. Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

Thomas Brooks

#33. Don't get me wrong; it's not like I didn't go out and have fun. But there's been a lot of players that come to New York and get caught up in the lifestyle, and before you know it, they're sent away to another team because it affected their performance.

Derek Jeter

#34. Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Thomas Brooks

#35. Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don't have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.

Anna White

#36. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

Theodore L. Cuyler