Divine Splendor Quotes

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence.

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.