Arms are instruments of ill omen. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. When great numbers of people are killed, one shou
Quotes about exult (8 Quotes)
We are all aware of man's poor peripheral vision in that his views are often narrow and heedless of what is going on on each side of him. Man's problem is often one of length of view, too. This poorness of perspective often produces wonderful and pathetic paradoxes men who have been given the blessings of life by the grace of God, cry that life is senseless men who have been given breath and voice by God, use the powers of speech to deny God's existence men who have been given the capacity to feel, exult so much in this gift that sensual things sublimate spiritual things and some men who see our reaching out to distant places in our solar system conclude that this special planet is a random, unplanned mutant and refuse to connect the order of physical laws (that makes such journeys into space possible) with an Orderer.
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
Never seek to exult over others' faults deal sympathetically with the errors and mistakes of others hear only good things about them and do not give an ear to scandals.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
And now the time returns again Our souls exult, and London's towers Receive the Lamb of God to dwell In England's green and pleasant bowers.