Quotes about Rapture

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. Votes: 4

Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due." Votes: 4

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! Votes: 4

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college. Votes: 4

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. Votes: 4

Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture. Votes: 4

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. Votes: 4

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. Votes: 4

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Votes: 4

Probably hundreds of thousands of saved pregnant mothers are going to be going up in the Rapture, and you know good and well they are going to have their babies either in Heaven or when they get back to Earth in the Millennium! Votes: 4

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana. Votes: 3

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow. Votes: 3

The Rapture: The ultimate Republican back-up plan. Votes: 3

The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)" Votes: 3

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. Votes: 3

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed." Votes: 3

[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff? Votes: 3

Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs. Votes: 3

Oh! Many a time and oft had Harold loved, or dream'd he'd loved since Rapture is a dream." Votes: 3

He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him."- Lucinda Price, Rapture" Votes: 3

He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture Votes: 3

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds. Votes: 3

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds." Votes: 3

6 weeks since the Rapture "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Corinthians 15:50" Votes: 3

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat. Votes: 3

She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture." Votes: 3

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture. Votes: 3

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture." Votes: 3

Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn't a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for." -David Sosnowski, Rapture. (Pg. 92)" Votes: 3

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. Votes: 3

5 weeks since the Rapture "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." Thessalonians 2:3" Votes: 3

Before the final rat has eaten the last gram of you, Rapture will have returned. I will lead a paradeWho was that," they'll say, as they point to the sad shape hanging on my wall, "who was that?" Votes: 3

Let the power come. Let ecstasy erupt. Allow your heart to expand and overflow with adoration for this magnificent creation and for the love, wisdom and power that birthed it all. Rapture is needed now - rapture, reverence and grace. Votes: 3

I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now? Votes: 3

I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody and it's such a power hit of a track. Every time it pops on I like listening to it, I'm really drawn to it. Votes: 3

And now, we have no option. We can't say 'maybe' 'it's possible' 'it looks very probable...' No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is the day of the Rapture, it is the day that Judgment Day begins..." Votes: 3

One year before the Rapture "...that proves how marvellous God's love is, even for the most miserable human beings, being that demons can never take a human figure in a perfect form, and so the most stupid people are able to discover them." Nicholas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, 1595." Votes: 3

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence. Votes: 2

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it. Votes: 2

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. Votes: 2

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. Votes: 2

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians. Votes: 2

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians." Votes: 2

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). Votes: 2

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture. Votes: 2

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story. Votes: 2

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. Votes: 2

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did. Votes: 2

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. Votes: 2

It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations. Votes: 2

It's true, the Church will be raptured before the final seven years of Earth's history, but during that final seven years, many people will come to faith in Christ, but they will pay a terrible price to do so. Votes: 2

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. Votes: 2

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination. Votes: 2

Enraptured in hypnotic war" Votes: 1

What most enraptured me were the asparagus." Votes: 1

It's all impermanent, and in perfect rapture" Votes: 1

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture." Votes: 1

Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth." Votes: 1

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse." Votes: 1

AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air." Votes: 1

Its reward is in the doing,And the rapture of pursuingIs the prize" Votes: 1

All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature." Votes: 1

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music." Votes: 1

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.' Votes: 1

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?" Votes: 1

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange." Votes: 1

Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate." Votes: 1

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'" Votes: 1

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me." Votes: 1

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. Votes: 1

The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty." Votes: 1

I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me." Votes: 1

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind." Votes: 1

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness)." Votes: 1

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth." Votes: 1

Oh, sweet emotions, gentle harmony, goodness and peace of thesoftened heart, melting bliss of the first raptures of love, where are they,where are they?" Votes: 1

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door)." Votes: 1

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture." Votes: 1

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story." Votes: 1

Sir, don't make a bigger fool out of yourself because I promise you, if my car is not here when I leave service today . . . just pray for rapture." Votes: 1

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity." Votes: 1

If oceans of timecould grantheart one simple desireWe would be lovers afloaton trained trapeze high wirePleasurably bound byinvisible chordsof raptureHarnessed in mid air embraced foiled skilled arms of capture" Votes: 1

L shot Maki a disappointed look. But soon he forgot everything when Misa Amane appeared onstage. Enraptured he began to cheer with the girls in black lace and frilly skirts." Votes: 1

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did." Votes: 1

Crap. I was hopin' all things ugly had been raptured, but you're still muckin' up the planet.""We must share the same faith, honey. 'Cause beauty checked out when you showed up." Votes: 1

There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain." Votes: 1

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time." Votes: 1

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. Votes: 1

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle." Votes: 1

I want you to get swept away out there. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish. Be deliriously happy, or at least leave yourself open to be." Votes: 1

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country." Votes: 1

In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith." Votes: 1

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living." Votes: 1

The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person." Votes: 1

Thou wouldst not enslave man by a miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever." Votes: 1

I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture." Votes: 1

One belief is that it is easier to die, than to live. I'd rather make friends with Death, as a means to learn a few truths, than to allow life to lead me blindly astray within its subjective views and enraptured sciolism." Votes: 1

A sense of calm envelopes me, a feeling close to rapture. Swimming is one of the best things in my life. It has never solved any problems, but it has done no harm, and nothing has ever ruined it for me. Swimming." Votes: 1

Not the bee upon the blossom,In the pride o' sunny noon;Not the little sporting fairy,All beneath the simmer moon;Not the poet, in the momentFancy lightens in his e'e,Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,That thy presence gi'es to me." Votes: 1

Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods." Votes: 1

How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I enjoyed introspection, shrouded myself in cogitation; with what rapture did I listen for the rustling of frail insects in the thickets of my nerves!" Votes: 1

She was famous, and she was insane.Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice a gift.She was famous, and she was a liar." Votes: 1

And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony." Votes: 1

Out of your whole life give but a moment!All of your life that has gone before,All to come after it, -so you ignore,So you make perfect the present, condense,In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment,Thought and feeling and soul and sense." Votes: 1

I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles." Votes: 1

We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex." Votes: 1

Madeleine was enraptured by Garrison's tan complexion, which greatly differed from the pale boys of London. It wasn't actually the boys' fault, as the whole of the United Kingdom was under a cloud for much of the year. But at that moment, Madeleine decided that boys, like bread, were better toasted." Votes: 1

You can be in love with someone you hardly know, all romance and rapture and starry eyes.... But you can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you have lived with them and shared experience... you have got to share living before you can find love." Votes: 1

I am the Penitent God. And tonight, I have begun my battle. My siege. The hundred-thousand Ink-borne arrows, flying forth from my flaming pen, to assault the walls of tyrannical Cold that hold this man in awful rapture. My campaign for my friend's very soul. My war of Ice, Ink, and Ember." Votes: 1

There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror, the rapture of rescue from peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return. Let them picture union and a happy succeeding life." Votes: 1

So the price of careless rapture is a twisted history chronicled by envy. You were too busy being. And you are too busy now. You couldn't spare the time to note down a few facts: how the sun and silence poured into the big room with the yellow curtains; how everything was never-ending and expendable." Votes: 1

Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits." Votes: 1

YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN A MIX OF TRIUMPHS AND TOILS, CHALLENGES AND TESTS, AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND WORTHY. YOUR FAITH IN ME AND YOUR LOVING HEART ARE A TESTAMENT TO MY PEOPLE.'Thank you, my God.'COME, BE WITH ME. SIT WITH ME AT MY TABLE; JOIN ME IN RAPTURE. AND BRING YOUR CUTE FRIEND TOO." Votes: 1

You can kiss somebody else's spouse and get away with it. You can kiss a member of the same sex with near impunity. You can give an incestuous kiss on the sly. You can tongue-kiss a dog or exchange raptures with lab rats. But you can't kiss death without death kissing you back. Death is a passionate kisser." Votes: 1

Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He kept falling rapturously in love with women not his wife. And because that rapture was so wholly consuming, and felt so good, it struck him as impossible that God might possibly frown on such a thing." Votes: 1

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?" Votes: 1

All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms." Votes: 1

When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the people swirl around him, enraptured by the simple yet miraculous fact they they were there and alive in that moment, and so was he." Votes: 1

There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of thereeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to somethingwithin the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathlessrapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, likethe enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one belovedsinging to you alone." Votes: 1

After a few brief simple moments, he found her neck, kissing the nape as if it were a peach, grazing her skin barely, causing her to moan out a small tiny little whimper. Before she could take another rbreath, his lips met hers in rapture, and suddenly, she was lost within the tragic abyss of falling beneath a lovebinding spell." Votes: 1

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive." Votes: 1

I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses." Votes: 1

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words "bliss," "passion," and "rapture" - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books." Votes: 1

She wanted them to go together to some hopelessly disreputable bar and to console one another in the most maudlin fashion over a lengthy succession of powerful drinks of whiskey, to compare their illnesses, to marry their invalid souls for these few hours of painful communion, and to babble with rapture that they were at last, for a little while, they were no longer alone." Votes: 1

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death." Votes: 1

What moments divine , what rapture serene. Votes: 0

gardening is a madness and a rapture. Votes: 0

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain. Votes: 0

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches. Votes: 0

Sing with rapture and dance like a dervish. Votes: 0

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive. Votes: 0

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive. Votes: 0

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture. Votes: 0

You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture Votes: 0

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture. Votes: 0

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun. Votes: 0

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. Votes: 0

For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!" Votes: 0

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. Votes: 0

Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church? Votes: 0

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind. Votes: 0

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. Votes: 0

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. Votes: 0

Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate. Votes: 0

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. Votes: 0

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. Votes: 0

Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. Votes: 0

Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture. Votes: 0

Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again. Votes: 0

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. Votes: 0

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze. Votes: 0

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. Votes: 0

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man. Votes: 0

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion. Votes: 0

Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it. Votes: 0

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have. Votes: 0

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. Votes: 0

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. Votes: 0

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Votes: 0

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle. Votes: 0

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy. Votes: 0

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread? Votes: 0

I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease! Votes: 0

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.' Votes: 0

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it. Votes: 0

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. Votes: 0

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. Votes: 0

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night. Votes: 0

Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other. Votes: 0

I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete Votes: 0

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity. Votes: 0

I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive"¦we want to feel the rapture of being alive Votes: 0

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency. Votes: 0

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises. Votes: 0

Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture. Votes: 0

if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual. Votes: 0

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it. Votes: 0

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music. Votes: 0

Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture. Votes: 0

Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry. Votes: 0

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind. Votes: 0

Are you ready for the rapture of the churchAre you ready for HeavenOur Lord Jesus Christ now wants all Christians to get into a sense of urgency in our preparation for His second coming. Votes: 0

Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar. Votes: 0

When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels. Votes: 0

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods. Votes: 0

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. Votes: 0