Doctrine Quote by William Ellery Channing

But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Lydia Millet

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

— Dean Koontz

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our…

— Julian of Norwich

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior…

— Mother Angelica

“The Glory of this life is in viewing it as eternal.”

— Beth Johnson

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

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

— Meister Eckhart

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind,…

— Beilby Porteus

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