Harmony and grace depend on simplicity, the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously.
Grace is the first mouthful of each course – chewed and chewed until there’s nothing left of it. And all the time you’re chewing you pay attention to the flavour of the food, to it’s consistency and temperature, to the pressures on your teeth and the feel of the muscles in your jaws.
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling.
Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
