Quotes About Majesty

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

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.

The sun sat, in immense fieriness, just above the horizon, the sea, glittering in great swatches of phosphorescent white, waiting to receive it. Then the blazing ball dived and was gone, swallowed in one big gulp by the hungry waters. Amazing how fast, once it got near it, the sun in these latitudes hastened into the sea.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

he started to hum along with the stereo playing in the bedroom. Beethoven's Ode to Joy—possibly his favorite piece of music. The majesty of the chorus never ceased to thrill him.

London, thou art the flower of Cities all.

Christ did not redeem and save poor souls by sitting in majesty on his heavenly throne, but by hanging on the shameful cross, under the tormenting hand of man's fury and God's just wrath.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

a statement by Bertrand Russell ... embodies the tone of heroic denunciation that you can muster only if you have drunk deeply from the cup of your own oracular majesty

Why that was the stars, my little ones,' growled Kar, lifting his proud eyes to the endless heavens. 'For in the beginning, there was light.

Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...

But, he added, in a rare moment of self-revelation, "such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle.

This [Welsh] language seems to be more particularly adapted for poetry; which, however extraordinary it may seem to some, on account of the multiplicity of gutturals and consonants with which it abounds, has the softness and harmony of the Italian, with the majesty and expression of the Greek.

You will remember me for what I truly am: A God!

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty

God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God's masterpiece?