Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.
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.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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.
Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.
Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels.
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.
Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
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.
The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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