Quotes About Magnificence

I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

He was one of the greatest of our kind, and the drops that fell from him were golden, smearing his back with a terrible beauty.

The naked woman's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.

He could cloak a mind and fool another into thinking him invisible. A parlor trick, but one he disdained to use as she glided through the chamber sprinkled with stars against void. The stars were like Eva. They shimmered with a luminous brilliance, but couldn't see their own magnificence.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Drink in the richness of the whole, beautiful world that exists beyond the obvious. Marvel each and every day at the magnificence of life.

There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

To make yourself magnificent practice self compassion. Having self compassion means to honor and accept your own respectable self being. Self compassion is having grace for own self.

I don't see why I should disguise the magnificence of my education when you do nothing to hide the paucity of yours.

Autumn has a drama, a magnificence that spring lacks. The greening of bushes and the first flowers are not as thrilling, not as life enriching somehow, as autumn. Autumn signals fulfilment, the success of the year. Spring is merely a time of promise.

Nada, decididamente, cuando contemplaba aquellos magníficos volúmenes, nada podía compararse con tanta belleza. Más aún cuando pensaba que cada una de aquellas portadas de cuero envolvía la personalidad de una obra. Una personalidad eterna, inmutable, fiel, lo cual era imposible de decir de los hombres

That there's an ever-present, yet sometimes imperceptible, benign intelligence that pervades the enormous vastness of reality, from the center of the earth to the farthest reaches of space, yet given the immeasurable scope and seemingly impossible magnificence of just what we can detect, it's safe to say that everything has a reason, there have been no mistakes, love makes everything better, and what doesn't make sense yet one day will.

But many atheists have been uncomfortable with the purely negative. Many have had a profoundly spiritual or religious awe and humility towards nature and the Universe. As Carl Sagan wrote in Pale Blue Dot: "A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.

When you see through a defense mechanism, you don't stop at the intimidating behavior but go right on into the underlying misperception about life and through that to the path back to harmony. When you see through people's fear-based actions, motives, and secrets, you're really aiming for their sweet vulnerability, inner beauty, and magnificence—and you find their soul.

And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.

And for a full 180 days he displayed the glorious riches of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness.

As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, look at the magnificent stones and buildings!”