Quotes about Sublime

I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.

I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

Dispassion argues superior self-control; sublime patience is the very hall-mark of divine knowledge, and to retain an unbroken calm amid all the duties and distractions of life, marks off the man of power.

Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.

Also pertinent to these spirits is the execution of divine works which are done outside the order of nature, for these are most sublime among the divine ministrations... And if there be anything else that is universal and primary in the carrying out of divine ministrations, it is proper to assign it to this order.

a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after

attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.