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• For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.

  John Calvin

  Joy, Perception, Obscurity

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Lying, Doubt

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• In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

  Auguste Rodin

  Flower, Character, Eye

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• Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Focus, Gold, Empires

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• The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1872). “Works”

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• Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange and there's nothing in life that love cannot change! Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks... Love is the language, that every heart speaks. Love can't be bought, it is priceless and free, love, like pure magic, is life's sweet mystery!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Love, Sweet, Heart

  Helen Steiner Rice (2007). “A Collection of Love Gifts”, p.3, Barbour Publishing

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• 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.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Spiritual, Eye, One Day

  "Eighty Fairy Tales".

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Faith, Light, Rays

  "Marble Faun the Romance of Monte Beni Vo".

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• I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Jesus, Shining

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• There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.

  Andrew Harvey

  Grief, Self, Silence

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• I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Father, Opportunity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

  Alfred Noyes

  Book, Eye, Soul

  Alfred Noyes (1910). “The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems”

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• The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

  Werner Herzog

  Creation, Stellar, Collapse

  "Herzog: Ecstatic Truths - A Werner Herzog Documentary Retrospective". mubi.com. March 31, 2016.

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• Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Density, Culture, Manhattan

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• God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Suffering, Sorrow, Faces

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• Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmos…provides opportunities for us to enjoy God’s presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God’s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changed—but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.

  Marva Dawn

  Kings, Successful, Opportunity

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• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

  Harold Bloom

  Art, Reading, Sublime

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Sigh Of Relief, Height

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strong, Silence, Shelter

  "Le Fil de l'épée". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1932.

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• Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast
  each with a splendor
  which man in all his vileness cannot
  set aside; each with an excellence!

  Marianne Moore

  Moon, Night, Men

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.118, Penguin

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• The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace,
  The fox in the forest, all had their desire,
  As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

  Ruth Pitter

  Nature, Grace, Desire

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Tired, Darkness, World

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• Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

  Kalidasa

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

  Ahmad Thomson

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Thinking, Three

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