Quotes about Sublime
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
— Victor Hugo
At whose sight all the stars hide their diminish'd heads.
— John Milton
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime.
— Steven Pressfield
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
A heaven on earth.
— John Milton
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
— Dorothy Day
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.
— Max Lucado
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
— CS Lewis
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
— Desmond Tutu