Magnificence Quotes - Page 6

• A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Luxury, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• [Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.

  William Thomas Beckford

  Fiction, Half, Literature

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• If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  People, May, Honest

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• I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

  Rumi

  Prayer, Heart, Eye

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• The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.

  Edmund Burke

  Stars, Lying, Views

  Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.154

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Science, Religion

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Book by Carl Sagan, 1994.

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• Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.

  Rumi

  Way, Taught, Wonder

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• You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing Itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are perfection. You are magnificence. You are the creator, and you are creating the creation of You on this planet

  Rhonda Byrne

  Creating, Perfection, Body

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Pregnant
  and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that
  gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental
  forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have
  to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that
  you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mother, Law, Earthquakes

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.270, Book Publishing Company

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• The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Understanding, Cosmos, Joining

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne."

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Falling In Love, Mean

  "The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God".

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• There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Opportunity, Spirit, Moments

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• We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.

  Alan Cohen

  Letting Go, Freedom, Starting Over

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• How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

  Diana Vreeland

  Past, Today, Tomorrow

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