Glory Quotes

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.

Community is where humility and glory touch.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let me do what I want.

What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

In the cross of Christ I glory,

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.

Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.