Quotes About Majesty

There was a time in the not too distant past when a thunderstorm caused grown men to shudder and feel small.

This shall be the test of innocence—if I can hear a taunt, and look out on this friendly moon, pacing the heavens in queen-like majesty, with the accustomed yearning.

She gazed and wondered, like a child or peasant, and paid her silent tribute to visible grandeur.

Do we weep when the sun sinks into the ocean? The full magnificence of the sun is revealed to us only in the few moments preceding and following its disappearance.

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!

Man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it.

Trees are complicated, fascinating things, usually older and more beautiful than any of us.

GOD in not just in the details, He is the detail.

Greatness always indicates simplicity. Wisdom always results from curiosity.

1Let all that I am praise the LORD.     O LORD my God, how great you are!         You are robed with honor and majesty.        2You are dressed in a robe of light.     You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

I began to sense a momentous glory radiating from every form that met my eye- every limb and leaf, every blade of grass ablaze with the unutterable grandeur and majesty. And it seemed to me that the world I saw before me was merely an outward manifestation of a vastly powerful, deeply fundamental reality that existed just out of sight. I might not discern this veiled reality directly, but I could perceive its effects.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Mi estatura está algo por bajo de la media: este defecto no es solamente feo, sino incómodo, principalmente para los que tienen mando o ejercen cargos, pues la autoridad que procura la presencia hermosa y la corporal majestad les faltan.

When the human voice is reduced to being no longer a song, a word, or a cry, but the articulation of the unnamable itself, it is natural that there should be no other sound than the grinding of ice in the polar regions, the light, intermittent crackling of silk in the highest zones of the atmosphere, at the moment when the aurora borealis unfurls its strange, cold spangles. Majesty does not tolerate other eyes than these hard crystals

My feeling is that in religion there are very serious things, like the existence of God and the brotherhood of man, that are serious truths that we will one day learn to appreciate in perhaps a different language on a different scale... So I think there are real truths there, and in the sense the majesty of the universe is meaningful, and we do owe honor and awe to its Creator.

Don't be afraid, your majesty... Don't be afraid, your majesty, the blood has long since drained away into the earth and grapes have grown on the spot.

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.

Agad bowed to the Fairy Queen. 'You are most wise, your majesty. Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty.