Splendor Quotes

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.

A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.

Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

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.

Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.

There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor,
number and excess.

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

The Holy Trinity doesn't need our permission to carry on in their endlessly resourceful work of making all things new. That we are invited to catch even a glimpse of the splendor is grace. All of it, every breath and every second is grace.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being.

If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

I had a mini marathon once I landed the role - going from 'Splendor in the Grass' to 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Shampoo' to 'Reds.' I watched them back to back. I found that when you're in the mood for 'Reds,' you're not in the mood for 'Shampoo.'

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this country happen, the power structures, the natural splendor.

Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things,
they are within us.