Quotes about Grandeur

I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

The tree you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached the sky and was visible to all the earth,

I am transported to the time before the War between the States, a time that is bred into our awareness as Southerners, yet most often lauded as a day of grace and grandeur. Mr. Bass Carter causes me to wonder . . . how different is that history when seen from the fields and the lowly slave cabins?

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Dwell in thought upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see ; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision.