“Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order. — G. Bruce Boyer Copy Share Image
Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You… — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime. — John Bowring Copy Share Image
“...the end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.” — Patricia Hamill Copy Share Image
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength — Adam Young Copy Share Image
“Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The anxious heart, in its flailings, loses its hold on whatever grace God has bestowed upon it, and is sapped of the… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“The true measure of a person’s character is revealed when they learn of another’s darkest fears. It is in that moment the… — John C. Stipa Copy Share Image
The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Ask for the grace to let God continue to sculpt or paint me in different images. Those images (good & bad) make… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“For the Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need. It quickeneth… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Hunter slipped from the bed and grabbed his breeches to pull them on. Bathed in moonlight, the planes of his body were… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I come not, Ambrosia for any of the purposes thou hast named," replied Marcela, "but to defend myself and to prove how… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Jewelry is incredibly feminine, and reflects the grace and beauty of a women's style like nothing else. — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
“Loss of safe harbor, refuge of grace, where loving-kindness rues one day like another.” — B.G. Brainard Copy Share Image
She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“A godly person chooseth Christ and grace before the most illustrious things under the sun:” — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
“Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“How much is your sincerity, that much will be ‘Our’ divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Father of Mercies, teach me to hold all earthly things lightly and to fix my mind on a realm where Your grace… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“...every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Hold high the brow serene, O youth, where now you stand; Let the bright sheen Of your grace be seen, Fair hope… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“Try convincing ideologues that upholding grace and beauty in ugly times is itself a revolutionary act.” — Jim Ridley Copy Share Image
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
