Glory famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
-- A. E. Housman -
Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
-- Alexander Pope -
Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.
-- Alfred Bester -
The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
-- Alfred Bunn -
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.
-- Alistair Begg -
My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.
-- Allyson Felix -
Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
-- Andrew Young -
When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
-- Ann Voskamp -
If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
I do not care for the money, just for the glory.
-- Anna Held -
Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
-- Arthur Cravan -
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood -
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
-- Ben Jonson -
The truth is that the glory of God is the person and presence of God- The glory is the Holy Spirit .
-- Benny Hinn -
When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.
-- Beth Moore -
If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.
-- Beth Moore -
The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.
-- Beth Moore -
All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.
-- Beth Moore -
You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.
-- Beth Moore -
Our dreams, like the disciples’, are always too small. We are here to fulfill God’s dream—that we will bring Him glory through a remarkably abundant life. That’s how we find our greatest personal fulfillment, now and for eternity.
-- Bruce Wilkinson -
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
-- C. D. Broad -
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
-- C. S. Lewis -
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
-- C. S. Lewis -
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
-- C. S. Lewis -
She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man
-- Catherine Doherty -
Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.
-- Charles Colson -
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?
-- Charles Hodge -
Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
-- Charles Lamb -
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king.
-- Charles Wesley -
The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.
-- Charlie Peacock -
Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.
-- Chuck Bednarik -
The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.
-- Clara E. Laughlin -
The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
-- Clay Aiken -
Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?
-- Conrad Aiken -
Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.
-- Dan B. Allender -
We were never designed to receive glory. We were designed to give glory.
-- Darlene Zschech -
A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!
-- Dave Beard -
Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!
-- David Brainerd -
I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!
-- David Brainerd -
We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.
-- David Platt -
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
-- David Platt -
If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.
-- David Platt -
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
-- David Sarnoff -
I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.
-- Dominic Savio -
All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
-- Donald Miller -
Glory is of no use to the dead -Darth Bane
-- Drew Karpyshyn -
For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson -
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
-- Egerton Brydges -
Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.
-- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott -
The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.
-- Elias Lyman Magoon -
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will
-- Elizabeth Wein -
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
-- Eric Hoffer -
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
-- Euripides -
Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.
-- F. F. Bruce -
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?
-- Frances Wright -
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.
-- Francine Rivers -
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.
-- Francis Quarles -
Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes.
-- Frank Pittman -
I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.
-- Frankie Manning -
You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
-- Franklin Knight Lane -
If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.
-- Frederic Dan Huntington -
No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.
-- Frederick C. Blesse -
The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
-- Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm -
Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.
-- Gene Littler -
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
-- Gene Roddenberry -
I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.
-- George Brandis -
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
-- George III -
There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.
-- George Muller -
If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him
-- George Q. Cannon -
Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
-- George R. R. Martin -
The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Glory be to God for dappled things.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
It's not the destination, It's the glory of the ride.
-- Giles Andreae -
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
-- Girolamo Savonarola -
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.
-- Heinrich Heine
