Graciousness Quotes

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

~ Sue Mallory

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

~ Beth Moore

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

~ Davis Miller

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

~ Erik Larson

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

~ Matt Perman

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

~ James Macdonald

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to begin with. And she wonders why she didn’t do that sooner, why she gave in to so much fury and sorrow when she could have just let those emotions go.

~ Frank Bruno

Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

~ Robert J. Allison

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a gift for friendship. McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect and curmudgeonly demeanor, had a soft heart for other people and a genuine interest in their particulars.

~ David Mccullough

Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

~ Philip Zaleski

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, What you are doing is none of my business and What I am doing is none of your business.

~ George F. Will

After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed the affected side of his face, facing his disability and giving him the courage to do so.

~ Sally Bedell Smith

The Internet has given us the illusion of intimacy. We read someone's books, articles, sermons, or watch their videos online, and we feel we know them, so why not share what we think is wrong? But that illusion of intimacy is just that – an illusion. It distracts us from the important principle of reaching out to them personally first, and making the sometimes difficult effort of keeping it private and saving the relationship.

~ Phil Cooke

No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

~ John Howard Griffin

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

~ John Calvin

A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.

~ John Howard Griffin

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

~ Margaret Landon