Quotes About Majesty

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

You could stand there two hours; you could stand there five minutes. The Pacific didn't give a hoot about time. It would eat a year for breakfast. Is that why they'd always been so drawn to it? Is that why, still, they came and stood at the edge, day after day? Its blessed indifference? [Pacific]

He didn't know why, but the sight of the water stretching out as far as the eye could see, until it met the sky way in the distance, evoked a feeling of awe in him: the way it was always changing, the surface swelling and dipping, the scudding whitecaps and huge breakers. It put you in your place, put things in perspective. He could watch it forever.

Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.

We fear God by honoring, reverencing, and cherishing Him. His greatness and majesty reduce us to an overpowering sense of awe that is not focused only on His wrath and judgment but also on His transcendent glory , which is like nothing else we can confront in this world. It leaves us all but speechless.

Revelation 13:2 declares that his mouth is 'as the mouth of a lion' which is a symbolic expression telling of the majesty and awe-producing effects of his voice."[46] Just as the voice of a lion surpasses that of all other beasts, so the Antichrist will outrival orators both ancient and modern.

For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it - isn't that what we've all been waiting for?

On Maui, one November, Hugh and I went swimming, and turned to find a gigantic sea turtle coming up between us. As gentle as a cow she was, and with a cow's dopey, almost lovesick expression on her face. That, to me, was worth the entire trip, worth my entire life, practically. For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it—isn't that what we've all been waiting for?

The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

God was grumbling his thunder and playing the zig-zag lightning thru his fingers.

She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

But God will live in our midst only as the King, nothing less.

The Gran Canyon is grand. But we, as beings with self-awareness, are granderthan the Grand Canyon.

I whose holy sperm embalms the mountains, the lakes, the woods, the forests, the hills and the vastnesses of seas!

He was my first sight of a king, and I thought they were a different breed of men, a thread of gold above the rest of us. How I wish that were true.

As far as the eye could reach, this lonely forest sea rolled on and on till its faint blue billows broke against an incredibly distant horizon.

The book of Revelation is a book of worship that summons us to recognize the awesome majesty of our Lord.

SUS MAJESTADES IMPERIALES

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.