The Rapture Quotes

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!

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.

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

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.

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

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

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

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.

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

I can't wait to make you the love of my mortal life.

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.

You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

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.

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

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

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.

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

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

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

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

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.

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

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

He started to wonder if maybe they had been raptured while he was in school. He always worried the Lord would show up when he wasn't around. Or when he was on the toilet, taking care of a number two.

Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence.

Soulful love, is poetry in motion. A contemplation of beauty from the deep arises and the mere struggle to express the rapture of the soul.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

I will drive the world crazywith love poems for you.So they can know how magnificent you areand how crazy I am.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

History can be rewritten, but at what cost?

Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!'I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn't have mattered.

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.

People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

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.

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

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.

I know mine own!"--Walter Emmett Velvet, the Antichrist

I know mine own!

There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.