sublime

• If God is at all what we think He is, sublime, then there is something a little grotesque about requiring a cushioned pew, a good system of heating and a nice fat footstool as aids to communion with Him. —  Gossamer 1915
• "Not by the exceptional," says Maeterlinck, "shall the last word ever be spoken; and, indeed, what we call the sublime should be only a clearer, profounder insight into all that is perfectly normal." —  The Life Radiant
• Yet so sublime is the character of Mrs. Meeker in her deep religious feeling that in this moment of supreme desolation,--her husband's murdered body left alone on the ground; her daughter snatched from her arms; her home in smoking ruins behind her,--so remarkable is her character in its religious exaltation, that even in this hour of supreme agony she could say, "_Though He slay me_, yet will I trust in Him A little mountain town of some five hundred inhabitants, named Meeker, for the heroic man who there met his tragic death, now marks the site of the massacre. —  The Life Radiant
• So of Elias amongst the Jews (_when Elias shall come_), as the sublime, mysterious, and in some degree pathetic expression for a great teacher lurking amongst the dreadful mists VI. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• His purity of purpose was sublime, and the jewel of his soul was integrity At college he easily stood at the head of his class. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8

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