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Quotes About Majesty

I desire the King's sanity as fervently as Your Majesty does." "I care not for his sanity. I care for his happiness. His soul. Let him be mad if mad is what he needs.
~ Julia Quinn
The stately homes of England!How beautiful they stand,Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land!
~ Felicia Hemans
Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.
~ Felix Salten
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
~ Fiona MacLeod
But of the stimulus of drugs, of potions, beware. For the sake of that very majesty with which you justly wish to aggrandize your soul, beware. Their fountains will be presently exhausted, and then you shall helplessly beat your breast, as without possibility of arising from the brink you draw in their foul, their maddening lees, and curse yourself for slaying those noble powers which it was your longing to strengthen, to nourish, and to clarify.
~ Fitz Hugh Ludlow
just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last
~ Fosco Maraini
It is easy to love power, because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness.
~ Frances Hardinge
I think that when Lady Tamarind looks at you, she feels as the cathedral might if it suddenly remembered that once it had been a grim little church facing down musket fire and a cruel sea wind.
~ Frances Hardinge
You must not love them," said Quest gently. "It is easy to love power, because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness. But the gods were monsters. Do not even love their memory.
~ Frances Hardinge
You must not love them. It is easy to love power because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness. But the gods were monsters. Do not even love their memory. The gods are dead.
~ Frances Hardinge
She wanted to reach out across countless aeons and hold it, just as its maker had once held it. That would be like touching a star.
~ Frances Hardinge
Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.
~ Billy Graham
What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.
~ Billy Graham
Our Father and our God, I stand in awe of Your majesty and brilliance. I admit that I do not understand the mysteries of Your universe. Your knowledge and wisdom overpower me and leave me in wonder. Thank You, though, for revealing the one secret I most need—the secret of salvation through Jesus Christ, my Lord. Amen.
~ Billy Graham
No Christian has the right to go around wringing his hands, wondering what we are to do in the face of the present world situation. The Scripture says that in the midst of persecution, confusion, wars, and rumors of wars, we are to comfort one another with the knowledge that Jesus Christ is coming back in triumph, glory, and majesty.
~ Billy Graham
Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God—on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.
~ Billy Graham
Holiness is proximity to the throne.
~ Bob Sorge
thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
~ Harold Bloom
I have thought that the word America must mean different things to the people who live under its aegis. I would that for each of them it might be symbolized by one -- at least one -- memory of some aspect of unspoiled nature. America -- wide, far-reaching, insouciant -- has been the amphitheater for our civilization. I wish each of us could appreciate its vast beauty, and could see how far the elements of our civilization fall short of the sheer majesty of our America.
~ Harvey Broome
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
~ Julie Andrews
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.
~ Sorin Cerin
Darkness must fall before we are aware of the majesty of the stars above our heads. It was necessary for this dark hour to fall, perhaps the darkest in history, to make us realize that freedom is as vital to our soul as breathing to our body.
~ Stefan Zweig
Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.
~ Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin