Majesty famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .
-- Albert Pike -
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty
-- Arthur W. Pink -
Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!
-- Beth Moore -
No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton
-- Bryan Davis -
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--
-- C. S. Lewis -
No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.
-- Charles James Fox -
When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.
-- Colin Farrell -
Now what?†Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?†Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,†he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.
-- David Eddings -
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
-- David Eddings -
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
-- Douglas Adams -
Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature
-- Eckhart Tolle -
A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -
-- Emily Dickinson -
O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.
-- Frederick William Faber -
I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.
-- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo -
This cause will roll on in majesty and power to fill the earth. Doors now closed to the preaching of the gospel will be opened. The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
-- Harold MacMillan -
How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.
-- Horace Walpole -
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
-- Horatio Greenough -
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored thee in thy majesty of visible creation, And searched into thy hidden and mysterious ways As Poet, as Philosopher, as Sage?
-- Humphry Davy -
swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.†Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.†“I will kill him.†“The Beast Lord or Barabas?†“Both.
-- Ilona Andrews -
In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.
-- James Ellis -
No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.
-- James Otis -
Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.
-- Jean Racine -
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
-- Jerry Bridges -
Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
-- John Calvin -
It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.
-- John Owen -
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
-- Joseph Barbera -
She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.
-- M. F. K. Fisher -
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, I’m afraid I already knew that about you.
-- Marissa Meyer -
Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?" Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it.
-- Marissa Meyer -
Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy as—" "Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca.
-- MaryJanice Davidson -
Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.
-- Matt Redman -
Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.
-- Megan Whalen Turner -
Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
-- Melina Marchetta -
Leave everything for one moment, in unending time and just be. This is the majesty of Being
-- Mooji -
Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.
-- Parley P. Pratt -
However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.
-- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow -
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God
-- R. C. Sproul -
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
-- Ralph Steadman -
We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.
-- Rumi -
I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.
-- Rumi -
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One
-- Said Nursi -
My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.
-- Seth Grahame-Smith -
Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly.
-- Stuart Hill -
Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.
-- Tony Snow -
Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!
-- Trenton Lee Stewart -
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.
-- Walter Bagehot -
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
-- William Lilly -
I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations.
-- Konnie Huq -
If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
-- Peter O'Toole -
Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.
-- Sergei Diaghilev -
When I'm gonna sing for people I try to meditate upon his majesty and meditate on what is right and then transmit it to the nation. That is how Rastafari really influence.
-- Sizzla -
What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.
-- James Mangold -
Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.
-- William Henry Maule
