Majesty Quotes

• No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beauty, Mom, Mother

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• Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

  Ted Koppel

  Motivational, Sight, Goal

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• There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.64

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• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

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• There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

  Washington Irving

  Nature, Soul, Noble

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• To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Wisdom, Grateful, Ignorance

  "Poland: The Knight Among Nations". Book by Louis E. Van Norman (p. 290), 1907; later quoted in "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief", book by Francis Collins (pp. 230-231), 2006.

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• This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• About three in the morning as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried out for exceeding joy, and many fell to the ground. As soon as we recovered a little from the awe and amazement at the presence of His Majesty, we broke out with one voice, 'We praise Thee, O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.'

  John Wesley

  Morning, Prayer, Voice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works...”, p.117

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• Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

  John Piper

  Mirrors, Paradise, Halls

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• 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.

  John Calvin

  Understanding, Splendor, Overwhelmed

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• All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Religious, Inspiration

  "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien".

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• The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

  Rollo May

  Heart, Views, Sunrise

  Rollo May (2015). “The Discovery of Being”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

  Tony Snow

  Love, Soil, Unexpected

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• It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Justice, Soul

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• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Race, Years, Land

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ambition, Mean

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• This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Nature, Simple

  In R. N. Linscott (ed.) 'Selected Letters and Poems of Emily Dickinson' (1959)

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• Only cowards insult dying majesty.

  Aesop

  Dying, Coward, Insult

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Honor, Imagine

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• The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Faith, Nature, Creation

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• We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...

  Albert Pike

  Art, Stars, Spring

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Conviction, Presence Of God

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.29, Baker Books

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• While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

  Joseph Barbera

  Religious, Religion, Immune

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.

  Rumi

  Angel, Heaven, Should

  Jalal al-Din Rumi (2010). “Mystical Poems of Rumi”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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• The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Prayer, Kingdoms

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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