Quotes about Majesty

Such an One is to be revered, worshipped, adored. He is solitary in His majesty, unique in His excellency, peerless in His perfections. He sustains all, but is Himself independent of all. He gives to all, but is enriched by none.

the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under

Gazing at the grandeur of heavenly glory transforms our value system. In

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

The wakeful nightingale, she all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus, that led the starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seem'd lords of all.

At whose sight all the stars hide their diminish'd heads.

It is the complete system of divine truth to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken with impunity. Every attempt to disguise or soften any branch of this truth in order to accommodate it to the prevailing taste around us either to avoid the displeasure or court the favor of our fellow mortals must be an affront to the majesty of God and an act of treachery to men.

childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.

The domestication of God is a curse on preaching in our day. We need to recover reality and the language of majesty and holiness and awe and glory: "Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?" (Exod. 15:11).

In Jesus Christ, he says, meet infinite highness and infinite condescension; infinite justice and infinite grace; infinite glory and lowest humility; infinite majesty and transcendent meekness; deepest reverence toward God and equality with God; worthiness of good and the greatest patience under the suffering of evil; a great spirit of obedience and supreme dominion over heaven and earth; absolute sovereignty and perfect resignation; self-sufficiency and an entire trust and reliance on God.