Sedea colà, dond'egli e buono e giusto
Dà legge al tutto, e 'l tutto orna e produce
Sovra i bassi confin del mondo angusto,
Ove senso o ragion non si conduce.
E della eternità nel trono augusto
Risplendea con tre lumi in una luce.
Ha sotto i piedi il Fato e la Natura,
Ministri umíli, e 'l moto, e chi 'l misura; <p> E 'l loco, e quella che qual fumo o polve
La gloria di qua giuso e l'oro e i regni,
piace là su, disperde e volve:
Nè, Diva, cura i nostri umani sdegni.
Quivi ei così nel suo splendor s'involve,
Che v'abbaglian la vista anco i più degni;
D'intorno ha innumerabili immortali
Disegualmente in lor letizia eguali.
Canto IX, stanzas 56–57 (tr. Edward Fairfax)
Max Wickert's translation:
He sat where He gives laws both good and just
to all, and all creates, and all sets right,
above the low bounds of this world of dust,
beyond the reach of sense or reason's might;
enthroned upon Eternity, august,
He shines with three lights in a single light.
At His feet Fate and Nature humbly sit,
and Motion, and the Power that measures it,<p>and Space, and Fate who like a powder will
all fame and gold and kingdoms here below,
as pleases Him on high, disperse or spill,
nor, goddess, cares she for our wrath or woe.
There He, enwrapped in His own splendour, still
blinds even worthiest vision with His glow.
All round Him throng immortals numberless,
unequally equal in their happiness.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Quotes about grace
page 8
“The essence of grace is that God is for you.”
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
“Ay, 'tis thus. Evil us hath in bond;
By Thy grace guilt efface and respond
"Forgiven!"”
Omnam Kayn, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 122
General Quotes
“Puppets have the same sort of graceful aging that cartoon characters have.”
Interview with Associated Press (1986)
And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.</p>
"The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the Titanic), lines 22-33
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 323.
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 40
“If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 19
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 217.
Source: The Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 43
" Our Present Discontents http://books.google.com/books?id=dFYPAQAAIAAJ&q="It+is+becoming+impossible+for+those+who+mix+at+all+with+their+fellow-men+to+believe+that+the+grace+of+God+is+distributed+denominationally"&pg=PA32#v=onepage" (August 1919) in Outspoken Essays (1919), p. 32
Thunder on the Right
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)
[Subject: Slaughter of the Canaanites, Reasonable Faith, http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5767, 2011-10-20], quoted in [Why I refuse to debate with William Lane Craig, Richard, Dawkins, Guardian, 2011-10-20, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/richard-dawkins-william-lane-craig, 2011-10-20]
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 564.
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 3
Quote in a letter (27 November, 1858) to Degas' friend and painter Gustave Moreau; as quoted in More unpublished Letters of Degas, Theodore Reff, Art Bulletin LI, No. 3., Sept. 1969, pp. 282-283
1855 - 1875
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
“The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 334.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1784), Lecture XLIII: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey—Virgil's Aeneid.
Summations, Chapter 51
Context: The Lord that sat stately in rest and in peace, I understood that He is God. The Servant that stood afore the Lord, I understood that it was shewed for Adam: that is to say, one man was shewed, that time, and his falling, to make it thereby understood how God beholdeth All-Man and his falling. For in the sight of God all man is one man, and one man is all man. This man was hurt in his might and made full feeble; and he was stunned in his understanding so that he turned from the beholding of his Lord. But his will was kept whole in God’s sight; — for his will I saw our Lord commend and approve. But himself was letted and blinded from the knowing of this will; and this is to him great sorrow and grievous distress: for neither doth he see clearly his loving Lord, which is to him full meek and mild, nor doth he see truly what himself is in the sight of his loving Lord. And well I wot when these two are wisely and truly seen, we shall get rest and peace here in part, and the fulness of the bliss of Heaven, by His plenteous grace.
And this was a beginning of teaching which I saw in the same time, whereby I might come to know in what manner He beholdeth us in our sin. And then I saw that only Pain blameth and punisheth, and our courteous Lord comforteth and sorroweth; and ever He is to the soul in glad Cheer, loving, and longing to bring us to His bliss.
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317.
Architecture in Britain, 1530–1830
Source: Costly Grace, p. 45.
Summations, Chapter 60
Context: This fair lovely word Mother, it is so sweet and so close in Nature of itself that it may not verily be said of none but of Him; and to her that is very Mother of Him and of all. To the property of Motherhood belongeth natural love, wisdom, and knowing; and it is good: for though it be so that our bodily forthbringing be but little, low, and simple in regard of our spiritual forthbringing, yet it is He that doeth it in the creatures by whom that it is done. The Kindly, loving Mother that witteth and knoweth the need of her child, she keepeth it full tenderly, as the nature and condition of Motherhood will. And as it waxeth in age, she changeth her working, but not her love. And when it is waxen of more age, she suffereth that it be beaten in breaking down of vices, to make the child receive virtues and graces. This working, with all that be fair and good, our Lord doeth it in them by whom it is done: thus He is our Mother in Nature by the working of Grace in the lower part for love of the higher part. And He willeth that we know this: for He will have all our love fastened to Him. And in this I saw that all our duty that we owe, by God’s bidding, to Fatherhood and Motherhood, for God’s Fatherhood and Motherhood is fulfilled in true loving of God; which blessed love Christ worketh in us. And this was shewed in all and especially in the high plenteous words where He saith: It is I that thou lovest.
Source: Consciencism (1964), Introduction, pp. 2-4.
“Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.”
The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge http://books.google.com/books?id=vI0uAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Few+men+of+action+have+been+able+to+make+a+graceful+exit+at+the+appropriate+time%22&pg=PA239#v=onepage (1966)
Letter to Ahmad Shah Abdali, Ruler of Afghanistan. Translated from the Urdu version of K.A. Nizami, Shãh Walîullah Dehlvî ke Siyãsî Maktûbãt, Second Edition, Delhi, 1969, p.83 ff.
From his letters
Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2016, January 5). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10153792008550610/
2016, Facebook
Address to the Gridiron Club (27 April 1931)
“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
"Poetry and Literature" (1941), as translated in Selected Writings (1957).
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 503.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 119.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 233.
Francis Escudero Twitter feed: @SayChiz (7:09 p.m. 2015 October 26).
2015, Twitter Feed
On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present (2012), Ch. 1 : Why Herodotus?
[Mandis, Steven G., The Real Madrid Way: How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet, 2016, BenBella Books, https://books.google.fi/books/about/The_Real_Madrid_Way.html?id=IEbQDAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y, 978-1-942952-54-1]
After Madrid's Raúl had timed his run and sent the ball left-footed past Bayer Leverkusen's Hans-Jörg Butt.
2002 UEFA Champions League Final
An Amiable Icicle https://thegreatbaz.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/an-amiable-icicle-1929/ (August 1929)
Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted aka A Sure Guide to Heaven (first published 1671), P. 48.
Shri K. R. Narayanan President of India in Conversation with N. Ram on Doordarshan and All India Radio
Interview in O : The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)
Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2015, September 15). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10153581153210610/
2015, Facebook
From 'Sonnet - to Expression', Poems 1786, kindle ebook ASIN B00849523Q
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 489.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 1.
Father Barron, Robert. Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith (Kindle Locations 75-81). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 151; As cited in: Ortiz et al. (2006)
"On Recollection" st. 2 lines 7-12, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
Summations, Chapter 47
Context: Two things belong to our soul as duty: the one is that we reverently marvel, the other that we meekly suffer, ever enjoying in God. For He would have us understand that we shall in short time see clearly in Himself all that we desire.
And notwithstanding all this, I beheld and marvelled greatly: What is the mercy and forgiveness of God? For by the teaching that I had afore, I understood that the mercy of God should be the forgiveness of His wrath after the time that we have sinned. For methought that to a soul whose meaning and desire is to love, the wrath of God was harder than any other pain, and therefore I took that the forgiveness of His wrath should be one of the principal points of His mercy. But howsoever I might behold and desire, I could in no wise see this point in all the Shewing.
But how I understood and saw of the work of mercy, I shall tell somewhat, as God will give me grace. I understood this: Man is changeable in this life, and by frailty and overcoming falleth into sin: he is weak and unwise of himself, and also his will is overlaid. And in this time he is in tempest and in sorrow and woe; and the cause is blindness: for he seeth not God. For if he saw God continually, he should have no mischievous feeling, nor any manner of motion or yearning that serveth to sin.
Thus saw I, and felt in the same time; and methought that the sight and the feeling was high and plenteous and gracious in comparison with that which our common feeling is in this life; but yet I thought it was but small and low in comparison with the great desire that the soul hath to see God.
Jane Taylor, "A Child's Hymn of Praise," from Hymns for Infant Minds (1810)
Misattributed
“Senator Grace and I cannot do this alone. We need the help of every one of you, of every Filipino!”
2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.
After practice, he was the only one who wasn't tired. I never saw him tired."
Wilt: Larger than Life, Robert Cherry
Athleticism
John 17:17
Heaven Taken By Storm
Uma obscura e inquieta castidade:
pôs uma flor para mim no jardim mais secreto
num horizonte de graça e claridade
intangível e perto.<p>Promessa estática no luar
da densidade em mim corpórea.
não é a culpa, é a memoria
da primeira manhã do pecado
sem Eva e sem Adão.<p>Só o fruto provado
e a serpente enroscada
na minha solidão.
Obscura Castidade (Dark Abstention).
People Have the Power, from Dream of Life (1988)
Lyrics
"A River Runs Through It", p. 4
A River Runs Through It (1976)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 506.
[Swami Saradeshananda, The Holy Mother's Reminiscences, Vedanta Kesari, 1976-1981]
“…but there, because there is no grace of God, go I.”
Source: Frameshift (1997), Chapter 25 (p. 179)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.
describing the Puritan view, Part IV, Ch. 4
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
58 min 56 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Traveller's Tales [Episode 6]
Act II
A Man for All Seasons (1960)
In a letter to Cardinal Farnese in Rome, from Venice 24th December 1547; after the original in Rochini's 'Belazione' u.s. pp. 9-10; as quoted in Titian: his life and times - With some account of his family... Vol. 2., J. A. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle, Publisher London, John Murray, 1877, pp. 164-165
Titian had to chose between Pope & Emperor when they were on the worst of terms; he decided to obey the Emperor Charles V who ordered Titian to come to his court at Augsburg, Germany
1541-1576
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 366.
New Leader (The New York Times (7 January 1963)