Quote by Charles A. Stoddard

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

Summary

This quote suggests that grace, viewed here as a state of perfection, can only be attained through a certain level of fierceness or savagery. It implies that achieving perfection requires a relentless determination and unwavering commitment, even to the point of being brutal if necessary. It challenges the idea that grace is inherently gentle or pacifying, emphasizing that true grace demands a certain assertiveness, strength, and ferociousness to overcome obstacles or challenges and reach a state of flawlessness.

Topics

Grace

By Charles A. Stoddard

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Best

You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by

You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory.

Victory

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Death

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.

Solitude

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards,

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Arthur Schopenhauer

Poker

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

Philosophy Scary

I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I wa

I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.

JeanPaul Sartre, The Words (New

God

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in o

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shootin

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Success & Failure

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Religion

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happie

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

Life Sunset Like Say Always My Life