How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
Horatius Bonar
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
Honor de Balzac
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
Jorge Luis Borges