Quotes About Glory

True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.

In other words, the path to glory for God's incarnate representative on earth was the path through suffering. The path to majesty was through meekness. The path to exaltation was through humility. The path to power was through weakness.

what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ.

Qué el deleite infinito y eterno de Dios en el mismo Dios pueda ahora fluir en nosotros a través del Espíritu Santo! Ésa es nuestra gloria y nuestro gozo.

The great end of all study--all theology--is a heart for God and a life of holiness. The great goal of all Edwards's work was the glory of God. And the greatest thing I have ever learned from Edwards, and the driving vision of this book, is that God is glorified most not merely by being known, nor by merely being dutifully obeyed, but by being enjoyed in the knowing and the obeying.

Prepara tu corazón para recibir a Cristo ¿Cómo va a ser posible que ustedes crean si unos a otros se rinden gloria, pero no buscan la gloria que viene del Dios único? – Juan 5:44

God reveals more or less of his glory in different times and settings. But it is always his glory! It is never minor. Never insignificant. Never negligible. It is always some measure of the infinite excellence. It is always worthy of seeing and knowing and loving.

God gets glory when two very different and very imperfect people forge a life of faithfulness in the furnace of affliction by relying on Christ.

The rejoicing of all peoples in God, and the magnifying of God's glory are one end, not two. Why

La fe salvífica está basada en una visión espiritual de Jesús como lo que realmente es, el Hijo glorioso de Dios. Y esta visión espiritual nos es dada mediante la Verdad inspirada, las Escrituras. Así, los ojos de nuestros corazones son abiertos para reconocerlo y recibirlo, no por medio de la sabiduría humana, sino por medio de la obra reveladora de Su Padre celestial.

From the purest principles of reason, as well as from the fountain of revealed truth, he demonstrates that the chief and ultimate end of the Supreme Being, in the works of creation and providence, was the manifestation of his own glory in the highest happiness of his creatures.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?"32 "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."33

The further up you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory, and that this aim is no other than the endless, ever-increasing joy of his people in that glory.

To the world the gospel doesn't look like power at all. It looks like weakness—asking people to be like children and telling them to depend on Jesus, instead of standing on their own two feet. But for those who believe, it is the power of God to give sinners everlasting glory.

Nadie comprenderá la necesidad de la conversión si ni siquiera sabe por qué nos creo Dios. Nos creó a su imagen para que pudiéramos reflejar su gloria en el mundo. Fuimos creados para ser prismas que reflejen la luz de la gloria de Dios en todos los aspectos de la vida. Es un gran misterio por qué quiso Dios compartir con nosotros el resplandor de su gloria.

If you love the glory of God, you cannot be indifferent to missions.

If we aim in what we do to display God's glory, we worship.

The wisdom of God's providence in bringing us from conversion to glory engages our wholehearted pursuit of holiness but reserves the decisive power for God himself. We act the miracle. God causes it.

God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

The deepest reason why we live for the glory of God is that God acts for the glory of God. We are passionate about God's glory because God is passionate about God's glory.

Mind and Love. These two words correspond to one of the deepest lessons Edwards ever taught. Mind (or understanding) and love (or affection) correspond to two great acts of the Godhead, and two ways that humans in his image reflect back to God his own glory. Here's

The gospel of the glory of Christ spreads better and flourishes more because of 6,500 languages, not in spite of them.

So when I say that everything that exists—including evil—is ordained by an infinitely holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly, I mean that, one way or the other, God sees to it that all things serve to glorify his Son. Whether he causes or permits, he does so with purpose. For an infinitely wise and all-knowing God, both causing and permitting are purposeful. They are part of the big picture of what God plans to bring to pass.

All sin comes from not putting supreme value on the glory of God—this is the very essence of sin.