“There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.”
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“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!”
Act 4, Scene 1
The Great God Brown (1926)
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Costly Grace (1937), p. 49

“People and nations could live in grace
but for two little words, "mine" and "yours."”
Liut unde lant diu möhten mit genâden sîn
wan zwei vil kleiniu wortelîn "min" unde "din".
"Liut unde lant diu möhten mit genâden sîn", line 1. Text and translation from Frederick Goldin (trans.) German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor Books, 1973) pp. 142–143.

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002), p. 93

“Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”
A statement of 1968, as quoted in "How And Why I Write: An Interview with Elie Wiesel" by Heidi Anne Walker, in Journal of Education, Vol. 162 (1980), p. 57
Variants:
Some words are deeds.
Souls on Fire : Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (1982)
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
As quoted in "Nobelists, Auschwitz, and Survival" by Robert McAfee Brown, in Christianity and Crisis, Vol. 48 (7 March 1988), p. 58