Rapture Quotes

• Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Life, Future

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Air, Heaven

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, p.285, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• What moments divine , what rapture serene.

  Cole Porter

  Serenity, Moments, Divine

  Song: Begin the Beguine

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• When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Unique, Love Is

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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.

  Washington Irving

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

  Helen Keller

  Bad Ass, Soul, Darkness

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  Clive Bell

  Religious, Art, Mean

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Children, Men

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Jobs, Stories, Juniors

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• Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Men, Two

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Farewell, Woods

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  James F. Cooper

  Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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• Sweet the young muse with love intense,
  Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

  Christopher Smart

  Sweet, Sleep, Innocence

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• That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Song, Thinking

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 14 (1845)

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• Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

  Eric Horvitz

  Religious, Taken, Past

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• Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Country, Men, Prussia

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.35, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Gains, Prize

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

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• We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Peace, Years

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• Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

  Liam Gallagher

  Oasis, Discipline, Superhero

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

  George Eliot

  Love, Mystery, Divine

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Heart

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

  Paul Valery

  Love, Heart, Self

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