The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
‘Ordinary Grace’ freed me. I don’t have to write only Cork O’Connor novels now. I’m liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.
‘Let’s Get Harry’ was where I met Bob Singer and worked with him for the first time, and then ‘Reasonable Doubts’ was the second time, and there was a thing after that called ‘Charlie Grace’ that was the third time. I liked working with Bob. A nice man and a good partner.
The human heart tends toward tribalism before tolerance. We can go back to that world. It still lives in all of us. Fighting it is the challenge, particularly at a time when the most audacious thing you can do is show some grace.
I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn’t grasp what they’re really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.
I’m happiest at home hanging out with the kids… Having a family has been my saving grace because I don’t work back to back on anything or I’d drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I’d never see.
The Fall was super powerful to me because of their covers. They were intimidating. I bought ‘This Nation’s Saving Grace’ when it came out in 1985, and there was something about it that made me nervous. It terrified me.
‘The Grace of Kings’ was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source – from favor and grace of God.
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
I’ve learned to love my body and myself over time by being a little more accepting and having grace with myself.
God’s grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Make sure you are safe, and never ever put yourself in a compromising situation, but once that is checked off the list, I think it’s really important for us to remember that someone needs us, and that your act of giving/helping/doing can truly become an act of grace once you get out of your head.
I do not know any way to explain why God’s grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
My mother is my greatest inspiration. She was an amazing mother and was very glamorous. My other inspirations include Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly.
As far as people whose style interests me, I’d say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
There wasn’t an episode of ‘Will & Grace’ that didn’t begin with my voice saying, ‘Will & Grace’ is taped before a live studio audience.
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.
When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
We all need grace. We all need Christ.
I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? You just could not keep me down for very long. You can call it grace or a gift from God, but I do think I came in with it.
We had a gay marriage on ‘Will & Grace’ in 2000, 2001. And I was like, ‘Gay marriage?’ I mean, it was just really early.
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It’s one-way love.
That’s the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.
I trained with the American Theatre of Harlem, and by the grace of God, that was my foundation to understanding the art of storytelling and understanding that I’m blessed to be in a play.
I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
I preach salvation by grace through faith alone. I preach for the repentance of sin.
There’s nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. But if there is any difference, it is the grace of God; the righteousness of God. It is a product of the grace of God. So, I am a product of the grace of God.
There’s a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been – but there’s still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either. Ever. I know who I am, and I know that God looks down on me and smiles. I know that – without a shadow of a doubt.
By God’s grace, it was turning out to be a cracker of a film, so we named it ‘Laxmmi Bomb.’ Like a dhamaka of Laxmmi Bomb cannot be missed, the transgender lead character is powerful and radiant. Hence the name fits perfectly.
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
If you had a friend going through a lot, you wouldn’t give them a hard time for going through it. You’d be like, it’s ok you’re going through it. So offer yourself the same grace and dignity that you’d offer to others.
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.
After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in ‘Are You Being Served?’
My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley’s GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
My characters – no, make that most characters – are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.
God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.
Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.
We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can’t be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don’t save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved.
I’ve always been someone who’s believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don’t believe in relativism, a ‘your truth, my truth’ kind of a thing. However, I also believe that the truth must always be spoken in love – and that grace and truth are found in Jesus Christ.
We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.
And you know, when you’ve experienced grace and you feel like you’ve been forgiven, you’re a lot more forgiving of other people. You’re a lot more gracious to others.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
I had seen the ballet of ‘Swan Lake’ as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
We didn’t, with ‘Will & Grace,’ set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It’s about poise and grace under extreme pressure.
Anything that hits us, with God all things are possible, and we get through by the grace of God.
At the beginning of ‘Will and Grace’, I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we’ve seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.
