A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.