Quotes About Majesty

all the grace I saw then was his own: simple, unadorned, glorious.

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.

She seemed to fit into the air like a jewel in its crown.

But if Mary sometimes lapsed into pessimism, she never forgot she was a queen.

Ad majorem Dei gloriam—to the greater glory of God.

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

Graveyards have the dignity of air, the authority of dust.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

High on a throne of royal state, which far

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

To dine with a glacier on a sunny day is a glorious thing and makes common feast of meat and wine ridiculous. The glacier eats hills and sunbeams.

ineffable beauty

Entering the Valley, gazing overwhelmed with the multitude of grand objects about us, perhaps the first to fix our attention will be the Bridal Veil, a beautiful waterfall on our right. Its brow, where it first leaps free from the cliff, is about 900 feet above us; and as it sways and sings in the wind, clad in gauzy, sun-sifted spray, half falling, half floating, it seems infinitely gentle and fine; but the hymns it sings tell the solemn fateful power hidden beneath its soft clothing.

Could one of these Sequoia Kings come to town in all its godlike majesty so as to be strikingly seen and allowed to plead its own cause, there would never again be any lack of defenders.

There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves;—of God, in his greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.

Think greatly of the greatness of God.

The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit.

If you will make a man of the working creature, you can not make a tool. Let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to do anything worth doing; and the engine-turning precision is lost at once. Out comes all his roughness, all the dulness, all his incapability; shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause:but out comes the whole majesty of him also; and we know the height of it only when we see the clouds settling upon him. And, whether the clouds be bright or dark.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe.

I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium.

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

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?