Quotes About Splendor

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

It was the beauty of the liturgy in St. Sophia that converted Russia to Orthodoxy after a fact-finding mission from Kiev in the tenth century experienced the service and reported back: "we knew not whether we were in Heaven or earth. For on earth there is no such splendour and beauty, and we are at a loss how to describe it. We only know that there God dwells among men.

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

I have never felt so supremely right in my emotions, not since I took my vows. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task, dear Father Damien, tremendous and foolish and human. I'm sick because I can't eat for the beauty of it, and the anguish is beautiful too.

Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

Let God leave us! Let us grow up. Let us walk forward on our own. Because we need the silence of the holy: we need the sacred and equally we need its maddening silence. And in the curious privacy and relief of that silence we can go out into the chaos and commit a thousand acts of minor and gleeful splendor all our own. If it's our tragedy to be left by God, then let it also be our luck.

The beauty of Rav Yohanan is not mentioned because Rav Yohanan did not have splendor of face (a beard).

Nos actes s'attachent a nous comme sa lueur au phosphore. Ils nous consument, il est vrai, mais il nous font notre splendeur.

around her, looking as beautiful as she

The gleaming stars all about the shining moon Hide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendid In the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed earth with clear silver light.

But in what splendor from this storm evolving, Vaults up the shimmering arc, in variance lasting, Now purely limned and now in air dissolving, A cooling fragrance all about it casting. This mirrors all aspiring human action. On this your mind for clearer insight fasten: That life is ours by colorful refraction.

We first observe how dreary and disagreeable an overclouded day is when a single sunbeam pierces through, and offers to us the exhilarating splendor of a serene hour.

The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.

she was impressed that a single ray of sun could make the world this beautiful.

I applaud the needlessly beautiful in all things.

Were part of the human race to be arrayed in that splendor of beauty which beams from the statues of gods, universal consent would acknowledge the rest of mankind naturally formed to be their slaves.

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

El rey tenía un palacio soberbio donde había acumulado riquezas y objetos de arte maravillosos.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Adonai, your creations are your reflections, and they show us that you are amazing. Thank you for even the stars up above, that those that look upon them may enjoy their majesty and splendor.

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

The world was one thing, but all people are not of it. Some are better than it, apart from it, more splendid, untouchable and pure.

Why place a shroud over all the splendor she saw around her, her vampire eyes feasting surely as she herself had feasted on all that we saw?