Margaret Prescott Montague famous quotes

Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have seen life as it really is-ravishingly, ecstatically, madly beautiful, and filled to overflowing with a wild joy, and a value unspeakable.
-- Margaret Prescott Montague

#Life #Beautiful #Heart

The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there.
-- Margaret Prescott Montague

#Life #Loyalty #Real

Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.
-- Margaret Prescott Montague

#Beauty #Falling In Love #Eye

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.
-- Margaret Prescott Montague

#Eye #Enabling #Illness

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.