Splendour Quotes

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness. Francis of Assisi

Beautiful Day Great You Light Sun High Brother Give Bears Through Splendour He Most Likeness Lord Praised Sir Us Your Radiant Who Whom Creatures

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. Robert Browning

Thought Splendour Stung Sudden

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! Pope Benedict XVI

Truth Freedom Relationship Joy Christ Church Beauty Living Society Born Splendour Witnesses How How Much Holiness Much Need

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers. Marquis de Lafayette

Great King Free Giving Country Energy Citizens Free Country More Only Splendour Am Than Person Officers Public Convinced Necessity Hereditary

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. Walter Pater

Time Experience Desperate Sense Gathering Our See About Touch Shall Splendour Make Effort Brevity Theories Awful Hardly Things

'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men. Abi Morgan

Me Women Commitment Writing Men Aggressive Complex Recognise Broke Through Splendour New Territory New Territory Exposed Desire Violent