Splendor Quotes

205 Splendor quotes by 175 unique authors

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth. — Dante Alighieri
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce
Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise. — Unknown Author
Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its… — Terence McKenna
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. — Thomas Merton
Bathe in the splendor of your own Light. — Unknown Author
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The name 'cherubim' means 'fullness of knowledge' or 'outpouring of wisdom'... The name cherubim signifies the power to know and to see God, to receive… — Pope Dionysius
Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our hearts' (Sg. Of… — John Climacus
People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time,… — Rabindranath Tagore
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of… — John Gunther
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges… — Sri Aurobindo
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. — Rudolf Otto
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor… — John Ruskin
How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting for words to… — Susan L. Taylor
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the… — Michelangelo
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. — George Bernard Shaw
But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a fascination in walking… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in… — Charles Dickens
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… — John Burroughs
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied… — Samuel Johnson

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