Sublime Quotes

You may taste the other flavors, but your thirst shall not depart, even for an instant. But when you taste the sweet flavor the the Lord's sublime essence - upon tasting it, you shall be wonder-struck and amazed. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. - Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere. - Guillaume Apollinaire

Without God, how can I find peace? There is nowhere else to go. Those who have tasted the sublime essence of His Love, remain satisfied and fulfilled. They renounce their selfishness and conceit, and they pray, God, please attach me to the hem of Your robe. Those whom the Husband Lord has united with Himself, shall not be separated from Him again. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

With him,i have found the juice, the sublime essence. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall! - Victor Hugo

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. - Josh Billings

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. - E. Stanley Jones