“High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.” GivingEarthHeavenSpaceWhiteBibleDignityEternityEightSnowTowersBlessedness Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
“The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.” GivingLooksChildrenSeemsEyeTogetherHeavenStarsPerfectHumilityHumourThousandHumorousAll ThingsDignityOptimismHeavyAbsenceKingdomsNosesCosmosFascinatingTouchingHintsKingdom Of HeavenAstonishmentCarnivalsEndearingSolemnity Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.” MenWellsHandsGivenHeavenDignityLifts Book:Select Minor Poems: Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller Source: Select Minor Poems: Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller
“Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!” MenPoliticalHeavenPeaceInterestLibertyPovertyDangerIgnoranceHonorConscienceDignitySightSlaveryExtremesNobleMapsAlmightyOffensiveDependenceGoodwillBreachExtreme PovertyDerogatorySacrilegiousBreach Of Trust Author:John Adams