The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I've never spoken with an angel, though one time I felt the awesome weight and glory of God's presence in an angel… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Only the childlike consciousness is capable of understanding all that is beautiful in life, all that is great in existence. And the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring… — William Carey Copy Share Image
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
You have to show up when your show fails - or it succeeds. When you are enjoying the glory of success, you… — Ekta Kapoor Copy Share Image
But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Once again, God to all glory, because I didnt feel one thing. I didnt hurt it one time. I actually argued with… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Now, the fourth gospel says that the moment that Jesus is glorified is the moment he's put to death on the cross,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Rather than trying to recover and maintain a tradition that links back to the past (and former glories), Chaos Magick is an… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“While Joseph's brothers made a pile Joseph suffered for a while That while did not seem a lengthy season With no design,… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire… — George Sewell Copy Share Image
... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross,… — Geerhardus Vos Copy Share Image
