Quotes About Glory

There is no greater pleasure than to win what everyone desires

Nationalism is a distorting mirror in which believers see their simple ethnic, religious, or territorial attributes transformed into glorious attributes and qualities.

It is our firm belief that we shall one day learn the plan of the entire multiverse and travel at will from Sphere to Sphere, from realm to realm, from world to world, travel through the great clouds of shifting, multicoloured stars, the tumbling planets in all their millions, through galaxies that swarm like gnats in a summer garden, and rivers of light–glory beyond glory–pathways of moonbeams between the roaming stars.

kind, to gaze in triumph at his gory head. So, remembering all this, let us all rejoice and feast together tonight. And in the morning I shall give you all your promised treasure.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

If you win in New York - that Frank Sinatra song - you are a god. You are a king.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

I'm playing the game because I love it. But I'm also playing it for my family. You play for the glory, but you play for your family, too.

True love is better than glory.

Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.

Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory?

I think people just love to win.

If you could see yourself before you were born, you would be amazed at your intelligence and glory. Birth is a sleep and a forgetting.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.