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Quotes About Behold

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
~ Julian of Norwich
Moreover, in the passages we have already quoted, the angels of children are said to behold the face of God, to defend us by their protection, to rejoice in our salvation, to admire the manifold grace of God in the Church, to be under Christ their head.
~ John Calvin
For though our eyes, in what direction soever they turn, are forced to behold the works of God, we see how fleeting our attention is, and holy quickly pious thoughts, if any arise, vanish away.
~ John Calvin
the real message of the Gospels is not a mere description of a state of affairs, but rather an invitation to taste and see how good is the Lord!, to "come and behold the wondrous deeds of God" (Psalms 46:8).
~ Ruben L.F. Habito
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.
~ Arnold Bennett
There would be no twilight, I realized that. Ah, very sad indeed. But as a vampire I often beheld the twilight. So why should I complain?
~ Anne Rice
Something happens to your senses when you look on Louis. Behold Louis...
~ Anne Rice
And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
~ John Jakes
Until we really behold the horror of the pit in which by nature we lie, we can never properly appreciate Christ's so-great salvation.
~ Arthur W. Pink
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
~ John Owen
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons.
~ bennett arnold iii
Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." -- John 4:35
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Song on Applying War Paint: At the center of the earth I stand, Behold me! At the wind center I stand, Behold me! A root of medicine Therefore I stand, At the wind center I stand.
~ Frances Densmore
Let the restless, the godless, depart and flee from Thee; yet Thou seest them, and dividest the darkness. And behold, the universe with them is fair, though they are foul.
~ St. Augustine
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open. "And he makes his stunning entry!" Kelsier announced, sweeping into the room, throwing back his mistcloak. Dockson snorted, shutting the doors. "You're truly a wonder to behold, Kell. Particularly the soot stains on your knees.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Behold!" I bellowed. "'Tis a foul beast of the nether-hells. Stand behind me and I shall slay it!" "Oh, Alcatraz," Bastille breathed. "Thou art awesomish and manlyish.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
~ John T. Flynn
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.
~ Richard Steele
The Obama administration's zeal to not 'waste a good crisis,' as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, has been stunning even for Washington insiders to behold.
~ Elaine Chao
I am the Bearer of Fener's grief,' he intoned in a whisper. 'I am my vow incarnate. This, and in all that follows. We are not yet done here. I am not yet done. Behold, I yield to nothing.
~ Steven Erikson
Behold! For this is his blood, within which dwells the light of truth!
~ Storm Constantine
For the moment however behold me sitting with Priscilla and Francis. A domestic interior. It is about ten o'clock in the evening and the curtains are drawn.
~ Iris Murdoch
Behold how they beckon, those years, long expired, From Heaven, in faded apparel attired
~ Charles Baudelaire