Quotes About Solemnity

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Thanks to Archbishop Cranmer and a fleet of committees who thoughtfully revised his Prayer Book, Anglicanism has a liturgy whose dignity and solemnity can act as a sure support through choppy waters. Seek out Cranmer's Evensong, hearken beyond its beautiful choral performance to some ghostly tut-tutting from a dead archbishop, and enjoy the way in which the past mocks our dogmatism and asks us to think again.

So the call to discipleship is a commitment solely to the person of Jesus Christ, a breaking through of all legalisms by the grace of him who calls.

Yet neither father nor mother, neither wife nor child, neither nationality nor tradition, can protect a man at the moment of his call. It is Christ's will that he should be thus isolated, and that he should fix his eyes solely upon him.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul.

Hablar sinceramente de ciertos temas serios implica el tono humorístico como único modo de evitar la solemne ridiculez.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them--the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs...if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end...

I love you', she said, to remind me that there was one answer to everything, and only one.

Life is to be lived for an audience of One.

The white majesty of death had fallen on him and set him apart as one crowned.

I have often experienced that, in moments as solemn as this, all human emotion is transformed into an almost mystic ecstasy, into a kind of enthusiasm, in which my whole being is magnified, or rather liberated from all selfishness, as though dispossessed of itself and depersonalized.

Hay ocasiones en que no comprendo cómo puede amar a otro hombre, cómo se atreve a amar a otro hombre, cuando yo la amo con un amor tan perfecto, tan profundo, tan inmenso; cuando no conozco más que a ella, ni veo más que a ella, ni pienso más que en ella.

Gar manches Herz verschwebt im Allgemeinen, Doch widmet sich das edelste dem Einen.

Si quieres gozar con un sentimiento puro las alegrías del amor, aparta de tu corazón el cinismo y la solemnidad. Aquel quiere ahuyentar a Amor, ésta pretende encadenarlo; Cuando el pícaro Dios sonríe nos deja ver cómo se opone a ambos.

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

A coffin striking earth is indisputably something serious." - from "At the Burial of a Friend

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

ridendo dicere severum . (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)