Top 100 Quotes About Rapture
#1. My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. The changes have awarded me a rapture that comes only when you can no longer be lied to, when you have rejected the Dream.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#3. The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
Lord Byron
#4. 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.
George Eliot
#6. 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.
L.M. Montgomery
#7. If the Rapture happened today, would you be untakenable?
C.O. Wyler
#8. [Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.
Matt Groening
#9. The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.
Samuel Johnson
#10. The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.
Ovid
#11. 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
Alanis Morissette
#12. Nirvana occurs when you not only look forward to rapture, but also gaze back into the times of anguish and find in them the seeds of your joy. You may not have felt that happiness at the time, but in retrospect it is incontrovertible.
Andrew Solomon
#13. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#14. A mixture of rapture and cowardice. No action, but all that quivering!
Damon Galgut
#15. For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"
Robert Graves
#16. 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.
Helen Keller
#17. posttribulationist understands the rapture to occur at the end of the seven-year tribulation, shortly before Jesus returns to the earth.
John F. Hart
#18. Are you ready for the rapture of the church
Are you ready for Heaven
Our Lord Jesus Christ now wants all Christians to get into a sense of urgency in our preparation for His second coming.
Doris Ijeoma Basil
#19. Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
Amy Lowell
#20. 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.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. There is rapture in the lonely shore, by the deep sea, and music in its roar." Lord Byron *
D.B. Patterson
#22. 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 moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me.
Robert Burns
#23. Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.
John D. Voelker
#25. 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.
Eugene Linden
#26. 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.
Amit Ray
#27. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on 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
George Gordon Byron
#28. There's a moment in every book when the story and characters are finally there; they come to life, they're in control. They do things they're not supposed to do and become people they weren't meant to be. When I reach that place, it's magic. It's a kind of rapture.
Sara Gruen
#29. A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
Frederick Scott Oliver
#30. The state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book
is one of the main reasons I read;
but it doesn't happen every time
or even every other time,
and when it does happen,
I am truly beside myself.
Nora Ephron
#31. We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive ... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
D.H. Lawrence
#32. There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
Victor Hugo
#33. 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.
John B. Tabb
#34. 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.
John Adams
#35. I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
Thaddeus Stevens
#36. A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
Michael Chabon
#38. Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.
Coleman Barks
#39. 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.
Dorothy Maclean
#40. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
Edwin Markham
#41. ..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...
Michel Leiris
#42. 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.
Eric Horvitz
#43. 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.
Kathryn Harrison
#44. 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
Joseph Campbell
#45. Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.
Thomas Campbell
#46. Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.
Margaret Mitchell
#47. The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)
Charles Stross
#48. If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Sydney Smith
#49. The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
Joseph Campbell
#50. Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.
Teresa Of Avila
#51. 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!
David Berg
#52. 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.
Bertolt Brecht
#53. 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
Phillip W. Simpson
#54. 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.
Daniel Keidl
#55. [To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?
Rachel Maddow
#56. The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience the rapture of living in an astonishing manner.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#57. I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.
Theodore Dreiser
#58. 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.
Mary Roach
#59. The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).
Christopher Hitchens
#60. The pure rapture was apparent, although there were glimmers of what could only be described as an exorcism. He was simultaneously reaching for something yet trying to rid himself of it at the same time as he ran through a smooth and fast legato.
Jessica Topper
#61. Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth.
Kirsty Eagar
#62. All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature.
Lauren Willig
#63. 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.
Clive Bell
#64. I came on the intro with 'The Rapture.' If you know what the rapture is, it's the coming of Jesus, and I had to take it off because of what happened ... I had the destruction, the bombs, and ... the world coming to a end, so it had to come off.
Erick Sermon
#65. I was Amazement
I was Desire
I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
Sharon Shinn
#66. Was I a dreamer, looking for an elusive happiness that real life could never deliver? Or were we meant to know the rapture of being alive, even at the cost of breaking the rules?
Elizabeth Lesser
#67. For every rapture there is a price and nothing is sustained forever. The path that destiny takes in the end leads to a balance of payments. No one remains overdrawn forever. Destiny's bank is inexorable, all accounts must balance.
Dorothy Fuldheim
#68. To my mom, powdered iced tea is almost as bad as the possibility of being left behind in the wake of the rapture. "You
Julie Murphy
#69. Have you ever wondered why you did not rapture and go to heaven the day you became a Christian? It is because God has work for you to do here on earth! Having gone to heaven, Jesus expects you to be his body on earth. You are his hands, his feet, his voice.
Pedro Okoro
#70. But mostly I wrote letters of gratitude: the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read, but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I'm truly beside myself.
Nora Ephron
#71. 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.
Stan Barstow
#72. Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
Emma Lazarus
#73. Your poor lungs." "We're not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there's just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture.
Tom Perrotta
#74. I knew he'd get left behind when the Rapture came due to his swearing and probably also for having long hair and tight pants.
Susan Juby
#75. Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#76. It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
Andrew Ryan
#78. It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.
Therese Of Lisieux
#79. 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.
Brigham Young
#80. Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.
Samael Aun Weor
#81. 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?
Louis Untermeyer
#82. Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.
Poppet
#83. There could not be an objection. There could be only a most proper alacrity, a most obliging compliance for public view, and smiled reined in and spirits dancing in private rapture
Jane Austen
#84. 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.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#85. 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.
Flower A. Newhouse
#86. No one in the church, in 1970, knew that the doctrine of pre-tribulation rapture had never been found in history before 1830, or that it was first promoted by an Irish minister named John Nelson Darby.
Ken Dahl Gabby Schulz
#87. 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.
Stephen Colbert
#88. Rhys lowered his heard, his mouth on hers before he knew what was happening. Her lips moved beneath his, open and eager. He groaned and wound his arms around her. The kiss was ecstasy, bliss
pure rapture.
Desire blazed through him as hot as dragon fire.
Donna Grant
#89. The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
Ovid
#90. 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.
Marlena De Blasi
#91. He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources.
Diana Gabaldon
#92. 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.
Jevon L. Mack
#93. 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.
Haruki Murakami
#94. Only to sit and think of God, Oh what a joy it is! To think the thought, to breathe the Name; Earth has no higher bliss. Father of Jesus, love's reward! What rapture will it be, Prostrate before Thy throne to lie, And gaze and gaze on Thee!
A.W. Tozer
#95. Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
D.H. Lawrence
#96. He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
Mary Renault
#97. 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.
Joseph Campbell
#98. ...in Dillard it's the comedy of rapture. Or at least it's a comedy that permits prose and thought to soar while inoculating the rapturous against the three ills of which nature writers should live in permanent dread: preciousness, reverence, and earnestness...
Geoff Dyer
#99. Before the final rat has eaten the last gram of you, Rapture will have returned. I will lead a parade. "Who was that," they'll say, as they point to the sad shape hanging on my wall, "who was that?
Andrew Ryan
#100. O Paradise, O Paradise! Who doth not crave for rest? Who would not see the happy land Where they that loved are blest? Refrain Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light, All rapture through and through In God's most holy sight. O Paradise, O Paradise, The world is growing old;
Theron Brown
