Cum itaque membris his vilissimis, qu× pro summ× turpitudinis exercitio pudenda vocantur, nec proprium sustinent nomen, me divina gratia mundavit potius quam privavit, quid aliud egit quam ad puritatem munditi× conservandam sordida removit et vitia. When divine grace cleansed rather than deprived me of those most vile members which from their grossly depraved activity are called 'pudenda' ['shameful'], having no proper name of their own, what else did it do but remove filth and foulness so as to preserve unblemished purity?

-Abelard, Peter
c.1135  Of his castration. Second letter to He¤  lo|«  se.

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.

-Barrymore, Ethel
Quoted in George  Jean Nathan The Theatre in the Fifties (1953).

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed Hisgrace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.

-Bates, Katharine Lee
  'America the Beautiful', opening lines.

When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.

-Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
  Baseless Biography,'Bacon'.

And theWord wasmade flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John1:14.

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 5:20.

And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of duetime.For I amthe least of theapostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:8^9.

My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians12:9.

Ye are fallen from grace.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Galatians 5:4.

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:4.

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 22:20^1.

Billige Gnade ist Gnade ohne Nachfolge, Gnade ohne Kreuz, Gnade ohne den lebendigen, menschgewordenen Jesus Christus. Cheap graceisgracewithout discipleship, gracewithout the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

-Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
  Nachfolge (translated as The Cost of Discipleship).

We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

-Book of Common Prayer
General Thanksgiving.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us.

-Book of Common Prayer
Catechism.

   How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!ö I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace.

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him† Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

-Buechner, (Carl) Frederick
  Now and Then.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftain o'the Puddin-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang's myarm.

-Burns, Robert
  'To a Haggis', stanza1.

  There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Of Sir Stafford Cripps.  Attributed.

Grace isgiven of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  The Bothie of  Tober-na-Vuolich, pt.4, l.159.