It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

And I pray thee loving Jesus that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept it graciously.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith and if our request is in accordance with His will He will hear us.

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

As far as friendships go things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing which is cool.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world and droop. Sick of its business of its pleasures tired how gracious how benign is solitude.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.