Quotessence
Home / Topics / Grandeur Quotes

Grandeur Quotes

Browse 337 quotes about Grandeur.

Related topics

MenDelusionDelusions Of GrandeurWorldHumansIfsArtKnowsSoulEyeGivingHeartMayMindPeopleGloryLittlesMoralWayEarthFormKindLyingSimplicityBeautifulForceIdeasIllusions Of GrandeurMadeNatureShouldUniverseAgeBelieveCharacterChildrenDoeDreamFeelsIndividualMysteryRichesSeemsSpiritSpringWant

Grandeur Quotes

“Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.”

IfsWorldLifeMeanMadeLife IsOrderUniverseStarsSunFlowerMoonGlorySpreadMade ItObedienceGloriousMarchBroadsDiamondMagnificentSublimeGrandeurMagnitudeConstellationsSun Moon
Author:Orison Swett Marden
Create image

“Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may dare to love him, and as a child trustingly lets himself be taken into our arms. It is as if God were saying: I know that my glory frightens you, and that you are trying to assert yourself in the face of my grandeur. So now I am coming to you as a child, so that you can accept me and love me.”

IfsKnowsTryingMayChildrenFacesAcceptingTakenArmsGloryAnd LoveDareAgain And AgainGrandeurAccept Me
Author:Pope Benedict XVI
Create image

“God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His saints in the age to come. He is also known from the grandeur and beauty of His creatures, from His providence which governs the world day by day, from His righteousness and from wonders which He shows to His saints in each generation.”

WorldShowsAgeChristianKnownWonderGenerationsCreaturesBlessedSaintOrthodoxRighteousnessProvidenceGrandeurReserved
Author:John Cassian
Create image

“...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit and, careless of the cost, it tries a second tack. Either it looks at things visible and makes of these a god - a gross mistake, for what visible thing is more sublime, more godlike, than its observer... - or else it discovers God through the beauty and order of things seen, using sight as a guide to what transcends sight without losing God through the grandeur of what it sees.”

ThinkingTryingFirstsLooksChristianOrderCausesBitsMistakeCostLosingSightTiredGuidesVisibleOrthodoxYearningSublimePowerlessObserversGrossCarelessGrandeurOrthodox ChristianGodlike
Author:Gregory of Nazianzus
Create image

“Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.”

PeopleIfsThinkingWorldHumansBigsPurposeTermViewsLandFiguresPaintingHealthyTinyScalesChineseLandscapeHumankindCommonplaceGrandeurThink BigSmall PartsLandscape Painting
Author:Barbara Ann Kipfer
Create image

“History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.”

PeopleMindWellsWholeDreamNationsMemoriesKnownHistoryDangerousProduceProductsPropertyReactionsBitterDelusionChemistryArrogantPersecutionWell KnownTormentGrandeurReposeDrunkennessGrievanceDeliriumInsufferable
Author:Paul Valery
Create image

“Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no holy wings: It stands with honest feet in honest dust, And is the body's blossoming in clear air Of trustfulness and joyance when alone Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair And claim that Paradise which is their own. Amid a universe of sweat and blood, Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate, Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood Of the loud world, in secret ere too late A gentle sacrament may celebrate Before their private altar of the good.”

WorldNeedsMayTwoBodyHateUniverseNationsHoursLove IsSecretClearAirBloodFeetHonestLoversHolyDespairLateClaimsWingsMoodDustCelebrateMortalsLoudGentleParadiseToo LateSweatSacramentsSimplestAltarsGrandeurCelestialGloomLove HateBlossomingForgetfulEarthly Things
Author:Arthur Davison Ficke
Create image

“He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions.”

GivingLooksSelfFactsFacesGivenDecisionQualitySituationDegreesSolutionsEvidenceBlindDrivenAbsenceAbsurdHypocrisyPersonal LifeFlexibleRespecting OthersGrandeurStatesmenAssertionGive And Take
Author:Alice Miller
Create image

“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.”

BelieveSaidEnoughAgeEarthFaithI BelieveChurchMoonShadowBlessedIndividualityConvictionShipsFlatsScornDisobedienceGrandeurDefianceMagellan
Book:The Gods, and Other Lectures
Create image

“This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.”

AmericaFormSpeedStaringConfusedOverwhelmingSublimeBizarreRestlessGrandeurCrudeLovelinessAudacityMouldIncongruity
Book:Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer
Create image

“Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people.”

PeopleMenNeedsFeelsYearsWellsMayTwoDreamTodayFallImaginationMemoriesSituationMoralHistoryHeroPureStrongerFiftyModestBrillianceEmperorOur MemoriesMonstrousGrandeurNapoleonic
Book:Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
Create image