Quotes about Sublime
I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.
- Mark Twain
I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.
- Mark Twain
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
- E Stanley Jones
Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
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.
- James Allen
Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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
- Charles Dickens
attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that
- Charles Dickens
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
- Charles Spurgeon
When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
- Thomas Paine