Alexander Whyte Quotes

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

Alexander Whyte

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• When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Free
  • Yourself

• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Issues
  • Direction
  • Paid

• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Problem
  • Mistake
  • Same

• I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Moving
  • New
  • Direction

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Women
  • Think
  • Grace

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Country
  • Know
  • Grace

• My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Direction
  • Turn

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Knowledge
  • Lost
  • Grace

• In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • World
  • Mother
  • Grace

• I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Direction

• I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Information
  • Direction

• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Present
  • Jesus
  • Smile

• Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Prayer
  • Grace
  • Dark Place

• Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Children
  • Hope

• What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Silence
  • Sound

• The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Sleep
  • Heaven
  • Study

• Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go... To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.

  

  Charlie Weis
  • School
  • Jobs
  • Honest

• But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

  

  Alexander Whyte
  • Grace
  • Direction
  • Flows