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• That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mean, Saint, Rewards

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• As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Fire, Wind, Practice

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works”, p.47, Allied Publishers

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• Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.171

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• The image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed.... Regardless of their record or character, all human beings have an irreducible glory and significance to them, because God loves them.... So we must treasure each and every human being as a way of showing due respect for the majesty of their owner and Creator.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, Records, Treasure

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.57, Penguin

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• Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

  Alan Ryan

  Men, Ideas, Roots

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• Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Midnight, Dungeons, Village

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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• Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Father, Heaven

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• The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

  Aeschylus

  God, Winning, Sky

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.

  Les Dawson

  Stars, Moon, Night

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• Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Deeds, Littles

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• The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Scripture, Admiration

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

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• The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

  Pope Leo I

  Jesus, Children, Men

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

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• Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Queens, Hands, Office

  "Queen urges Cwealth leaders to be bold". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. October 28, 2011.

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• There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

  John Hancock

  Patriotic, Glasses, Names

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• No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

  James Otis

  Taxation Without Representation, Dominion, Revolution

  James Otis (1769). “A vindication of the British colonies: By James Otis, Esq; of Boston..”, p.40

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• The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Self, Giving

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.200, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty. High-achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high-achieving children. Foundation executives doing fine and noble things. Prizes, of course, and high academic achievement.

  Thomas Frank

  Jobs, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.

  Hernando Cortes

  Past, Long, Victory

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• Understanding God's great love for undeserving people such as us, gives us insight into His great majesty. As beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so great love reveals the nature of the One who loves deeply.

  Mike Bickle

  Eye, Deep Love, Understanding God

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• No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ancient Literature, Style, Example

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.

  Ian Tattersall

  Mirrors, Imagination, One Day

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• All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Spiritual, Grief, Men

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• We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Trying, Kind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.

  John Adams

  Ambition, People, President

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.583

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