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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning
Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself. -- Pippa Middleton
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of wind, Depth of sea, Stability of earth, Firmness of rock. -- Saint Patrick
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. -- Michelangelo
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. -- William Wordsworth
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! -- Carl Maria von Weber
Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty. -- Pope John Paul II
Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet. -- R. S. Thomas
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. -- Charles Dickens
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. -- John Keats
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us. -- Thomas Merton
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals. -- Bertrand Russell
All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers! -- John Owen
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life. -- James Joyce
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship. -- Evelyn Underhill
The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi. -- Arthur Koestler
In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion. -- Edward Gibbon
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in. -- C. S. Lewis
Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living. -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! -- Pope Benedict XVI
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. -- Walter Pater
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits. -- John Ruskin
Anticipate the miraculous splendour of everyday wonder. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God is very great.God is splendour.God is majestic. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In my darkness time, God splendour light shines my path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour. -- Ezra Pound
Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour. -- Thomas Dubay
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour! -- David Berg
Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. -- Charles Dickens
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. -- Stephen Fry
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. -- Samuel Johnson
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. -- Aleister Crowley
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Where once there was a void,Now at least there are Seeds of splendour,Becalmed belief for another time. -- Scott Hastie
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. -- Ayn Rand
Gashed with honourable scars,Low in Glory's lap they lie;Though they fell, they fell like stars,Streaming splendour through the sky. -- James Montgomery
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to a new place, Another life. -- Hilda Doolittle
One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour. -- Ned Sublette
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment -- Rudolf Steiner
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death? -- Marcus Aurelius
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers. -- Jeanette Winterson
The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky. -- H. G. Wells
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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