Glory Quotes

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.

Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.

As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.

God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself.

The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ’s cross, constantly invites us to rejoice.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

Though the Holy Spirit is God, equal in essence to the Father and the Son, yet his role is consistently to defer honor, to seek to bring about the glory of another.

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

In Christ alone I place my trust And find my glory In the power of the Cross.

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

He will have true glory who despises it.

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

Ere, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of Autumn, all around our vale, Have put their glory on.

When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.