Believe Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we…

— Alain de Botton

This sublime love, being, by an intimate conjunction with its object, thoroughly refined from all base dross of selfishness and interest, nobly begets a…

— Robert Boyle

“Grace is the most powerful force in the universe. It can transcend repression, addiction, and every other internal or external power that seeks to…

— Gerald G. May

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...

— Lydia Millet

“To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state. To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse…

— Rachel Klein

“Sublime places gently move us to acknowledge limitations that we might otherwise encounter with anxiety or anger in the ordinary flow of events. It…

— Alain de Botton

“Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.”

— Edmund Burke

“But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight only that…

— Jonathan Edwards

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

— Voltaire

“On the cross, God subverted everything we intuitively understand about power … For many of us, coming to terms with the thought that great…

— Matt Johnson