Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can… — David Deida Copy Share Image
As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
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Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
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His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
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“She clapped her hands and murmured, "Blue sky, blue eyes," as if it amused her. While we snuggled down there out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself I have influenced with lots of John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Joanna Newsom, Mississippi Records compilations, Simon & Garfunkel, Duncan… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
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It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Now I've a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. I have a future in heaven for sure; there… — John W. Peterson Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
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