Saving Grace Quotes:

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

- A. Whitney Brown

source: "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.

topic: Laughing, Grace, Saving, Saving Grace

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

- Tila Tequila

topic: Want, Scared, Saving Grace

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

- Phil Collins

topic: Grace, Saving, Saving Grace

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion. And obviously, yeah, it's hard right now. But maybe there's a chance that if you get laid off, maybe that's your saving grace, your chance to restart.

- Tony Hawk

source: Interview with Gary Cohn, Entrepreneur Magazine, October 2009.

topic: Passion, Doing What You Love, People, Hesitant, Laid Off

The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.

- Cyprian

topic: Taken, Grace, Doe, Saving Grace

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

- Jean Renoir

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Men, Grace, Cinema, Little Love, Saving Grace

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

- Louise Erdrich

topic: Daughter, Mother, Children, Saving Grace

To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine

- J.R. Ward

source: J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.786, Penguin

topic: Strong, Grace, Healthy, Saving Grace, Paid Off

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Happiness, Joy, Grace, Saving Grace

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

- Elisabeth Moss

source: Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Stars, Child Actors, Saving Grace

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

- May Sarton

source: May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.47, Open Road Media

topic: Christmas, People, Effort, Christmas Card Greetings, Christmas Wishes

Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.

- Yasmine Galenorn

source: Yasmine Galenorn (2006). “Witchling: An Otherworld Novel”, p.274, Penguin

topic: Fate, Hands, Grace, Task At Hand, Saving Grace

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

- John Berendt

source: John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.454, Vintage

topic: Cities, People, Personality, Resistance To Change, Savannah

I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up bullshit reasons to call the Keep so I could hear his voice. My only saving grace was that Curran wasn’t handling this whole mating thing any better. Yesterday he’d called me at the office claiming that he couldn’t find his socks. We talked for two hours.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.81, Penguin

topic: Hurt, Fighting, Two, Mating, Saving Grace

Don’t cry for me, Grace. I’m not worth it. (Julian) Yes you are! (Grace) You are my saving Grace. Without you, I would never have known love. And I would never have known me again. (Julian)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Saving Grace

You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.125, A&C Black

topic: Long, Grace, Coward, Saving Grace

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.419, Anchor

topic: Children, Past, Grace, Levity, Saving Grace

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Children, Past, Grace, Levity, Saving Grace

As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

- Leo Gordon

topic: Death, Believe, Grace, Saving Grace

It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.

- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

topic: Vanity, Grace, Principles, Saving Grace

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

- Rebecca West

source: Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

topic: Art, Grace, Delight, Saving Grace

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace,

- Duane Michals

topic: Photography, School, Grace, Saving Grace

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

- Michael Dirda

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Kindness, Thinking, Essence, Saving Grace, Human Kindness

The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.

- Esperanza Spalding

topic: Light, Years, Grace, Czech, Saving Grace

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Hands, Effort, Saving Grace

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

- Anthea Turner

source: Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

topic: Vanity, Clothes, Grace, Saving Grace

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

- John Calvin

topic: Jesus, Heart, Joy, Goodness Of God, Gladness

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

- Iman Abdulmajid

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Party, Grace, Saving, Saving Grace

The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system.

- Milton Friedman

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Opportunity, Class, Issues, Saving Grace

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

- Kim Wilde

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Thinking, Laughing, Grace, Saving Grace

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

- Molly Ringwald

source: "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

topic: Book, Grace, Important, Saving Grace

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

- John Piper

topic: Moving, Giving, Joy, Augustine, Saving Grace

It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

- Jane Hirshfield

source: Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

topic: People, Grace, Saving, Grimace, Saving Grace

Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

- Patricia Montandon

topic: Laughter, Son, Laughing, Saving Grace

By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.

- Gabriel Fackre

topic: Struggle, Evil, Grace, Saving Grace

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

- Bill Moyers

topic: Running, Government, Long, Forms Of Government, Saving Grace

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories”, p.48, H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Stupid, Past, Grace, Saving Grace

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

- Chuck D

topic: Creating, Grace, World, Saving Grace

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

- Chuck D

topic: Thinking, Grace, Enemy, Public Enemies, Saving Grace

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

- Hannah Arendt

topic: Creativity, Long, Grace, Saving Grace, Great Gifts

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

- Richard Baxter

topic: Self, Grace, Denial, Saving Grace, Self-denial

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.

- Jude Law

topic: Kids, Home, Worry, Saving Grace

I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.

- Noel Fielding

topic: Art, Ambition, School, Art School, Saving Grace

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

- Mariah Carey

topic: Talking, Grace, Singing, Saving Grace

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

- Tullian Tchividjian

topic: Grace, Saving, Radical, Saving Grace

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

- Michael R. Burch

topic: Laughter, Political, Grace, Saving Grace

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

- Tyler Perry

topic: Mother, Church Choir, Grace, Saving Grace

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

- Elizabeth Edwards

source: "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

topic: Love, Moving On, Grief, Saving Grace

Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.

- Philip Schaff

source: Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1984). “History of the Christian Church, Volume 8 Modern Christianity the Swiss Reformation”, Eerdmans Pub Co

topic: Christian, Responsibility, Men, Calvinism, Saving Grace

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

- Martin Puryear

topic: Moving, Thinking, Grace, Saving Grace