Majesty quotes
111 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One"
"This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me"
"The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor."
"Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them."
"The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart."
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"Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty."
"We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty."
"Only cowards insult dying majesty."
"Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one."
"Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature"
"Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory."
"Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty."
"Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty."
"Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear."
"My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief."
"The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it."
"Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them."
"Leave everything for one moment, in unending time and just be. This is the majesty of Being"
"Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--"
"No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here."
"Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful."
"Virtue alone has majesty in death."
"A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -"
"Her Majesty is not a subject."
"No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton"
