Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

Benjamin Disraeli

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Bayard Taylor

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step.

Bodhidharma

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

Edmund Burke

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Denis Diderot

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Jane Austen

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Myrtle Reed

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

William Shakespeare

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

John Heywood

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

Charlotte Bronte

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Jane Hirshfield

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

Bill Hybels

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

Arthur Miller

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Benjamin Disraeli

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

C. S. Lewis

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Charles Simeon

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

Benjamin Franklin

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

Brother Lawrence

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.