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Quotes About Majesty

I saw you magnificent
~ Orson Scott Card
They watch stoms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about
~ Cotton Mather
He loved life. He loved the stars silently glowing down at him tonight. He loved even the gray, lifeless rock, which recalled to his imaginative genius the terrific and interesting life that had once existed--he loved the ghostly majesty of the grave-like pinnacle that rose above him, and beyond that he loved all the world. But most of all, more than his own life or all that a thousand lives might hold for him, he loved the violet-eyed girl. - Country Beyond.
~ Curwood, James Oliver
Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.
~ Dacher Keltner
If you do these things (read good books), what will be your reward? Gradually, unconsciously but inevitably, your diction will begin to take on added beauty and refinement. Gradually, you will begin to reflect someone the glory and beauty and majesty of your companions.
~ Dale Carnegie
In spite of appearances, the majesty of nature is just a fancy blanket draped over the malevolence of the creatures of earth.
~ Walter Mosley
We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
~ Wendell Berry
Colorado..... When God carved this place with His words, He lingered.
~ Charles Martin
throughout all eternity the discarded pieces that whisper the majesty and wonder of what is. What was. And the ever-elusive and exceedingly dangerous truth: what could be. We alone carry and share them. Carving pieces into letters that make up the words that heal us.
~ Charles Martin
really is—in all His power, majesty, wisdom, glory, and honor. He is the King of kings. If He commands it, so shall it be! The more you realize this, the more you'll have faith like the centurion's—trust that honors God and brings Him joy. Jesus, I trust what You say! You are worthy of all my love, devotion, and respect. Amen! My hope is in Jesus because He is worthy of my trust.
~ Charles Stanley
The sunrise opened above them like some cosmic explosion, shining and shattering and yet silent; as if the world were blown to pieces without a sound. Round the rays of the victorious sun swept a sort of rainbow of confused and conquered colours — brown and blue and green and flaming rose-colour; as though gold were driving before it all the colours of the world.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.
~ Terri Guillemets
The sea hath no King but God alone.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Tyrannosaurus drinks. Tyrannosaurus drives. Tyrannosaurus rex.
~ Author Unknown
As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of Omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
~ H. M. Tomlinson
I like the sea, but it's not a creature I want to take liberties with.
~ Hammond Innes
You forget the majesty of trade and the unparalleled virtues of the British Constitution which are all based on the sanity of the middle classes, combined with the diligence of the working-classes. You're
~ Harold Brighouse
26There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.
~ Harold W. Attridge
The shape of her head and the turn of her neck and bust were peculiarly noble, and the long golden-brown hair that floated like a cloud around it, the deep spiritual gravity of her violet blue eyes, shaded by heavy fringes of golden brown
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Now Bridal Veil Falls, stern and forbidding in winter, was leaping down joyously to join the San Miguel River.
~ Harriet Fish Backus
Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
~ lavater johann kaspar ii
May you learn to appreciate the magic of a firefly and the majesty of a mountain.
~ Lee Pitts
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
~ leibniz gottfried wilhelm