Quotes about Universe

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

De mens is geroepen in zijn doen zijn eigen wezen af te spiegelen. Hij zelf is een wereld in het klein, maar het ganse heelal vindt hij in zijn boezem terug. Niet het grote, het onbegrensde, het onbereikbare is daarom zijn taak, maar het lokale, het afgeperkte, het kleine, doch dat binnen zijn bepaalde afmetingen toch altijd het grote weerkaatst.

is heir to all the heavens and numberless worlds, but we are his treasures. The redeemed are worth more than the universe. We ought to be delirious with this truth.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.