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“Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.”

Firsts Art Philosophy Dream Earth Heaven Steps Angel Thee Dull Reaching First Steps Sublime Alas Ladders Beckoning Patriarch

Author:Alan Judd

“Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.”

Heaven Sides Singing Grateful Noble Sublime Adoration Congregation Psalms

Book:Treasury of David

Source: Treasury of David

“If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.”

Ifs Feelings Religion Three Found Heaven Religious Theory Direct Charity Sensibility Sublime Ratios Faith Hope Religious History Faith Hope And Charity

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.”

Ideas Heaven Stars Views Failing Source Valuable Magnificent Sublime Splendid Grandeur Magnificence

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law, the predictions of the prophets, the narratives of the gospels, the doctrines of the epistles, or the sublime vision of the Apocalypse, this is the food of the soul, the manna from heaven, the bread of life. This is "meat indeed" and "drink indeed."”

Soul Law Heaven Christ Vision Study Type Drink Connected Doctrine Bread Narrative Meat Prophet Sublime Predictions Apocalypse Bread Of Life

Author:John Angell James

“It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and providence - the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, the ocean, the storm, the earthquake, the volcano, the circuit of the seasons, and the revolutions of empires - without marking in them all the mighty hand of God, and feeling strong emotions of reverence toward the Author of these stupendous works.”

“Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.”

Knows Should Law Found Heaven Moral Morality Compare Sublime Hypothesis Protective Ingenious Moral Law Beetles

Author:Arthur Balfour