Glorious Quotes - Page 20

• the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.

  Allen Sapp

  Mean, Past, Voice

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• London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.

  James Geary

  New York, Cities, Brain

  "On London". jamesgeary.com. July 16, 2006.

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• It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sweet, People, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.223, Vintage

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• Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Character, Bird, Body

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• Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Blessing, Literature, Magazines

  "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.

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• Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Pyramids, Liberty, Lines

  "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.

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• It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.

  Oliver Cowdery

  Men, Years, Doctrine

  "Valedictory", Kirtland Church newspaper, editorial farewell dated February 1837, Messenger and advocate 3, p. 548, August 1837.

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• Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Speech, Action

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.164, Baker Books

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• My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

  Judy LaMarsh

  Feelings, Racing, Want

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 11, (p. 351), 1969.

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• We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Lying, Yield, Secret

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  War, Eye, Men

  "The Strange Necessity" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1969.

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• The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

  Al Gini

  Consequence

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• It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine

  Christopher Martin-Jenkins

  Sunshine, Blue, Perfect Days

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• May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

  Harry S. Truman

  Heritage, May

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.

  Paul Washer

  Hate, Intimate Relationships, Giving

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• Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheism, Heritage, Christianity

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• You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.

  Douglas Bloch

  Children, Reality, Unique

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• A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Murder, Built

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• What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God's love, a love we don't even have to earn.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Believe, Broken

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• Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Absence, Sophistication

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• Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Levels, Music Is

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• If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.

  John Stott

  Greatness, Worship, Speak

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• It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Passion, Law

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• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  Victoria Smurfit

  Play, Joy, Three

  "Victoria Smurfit Talks DRACULA, How She Joined the Series, and Lady Jayne’s Dark Side". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2013.

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