Quotes About Glory

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.

God's first creature, which was light.

And indeed what are the heavens, the earth, nay every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of [God's] Glory?

But the divine dayspring from on high is adored, Christ the Lord, who is our sun and shield; the sun of every blessing, asserting the glory of religion; the shield of the most safe protection, affording an invincible and inexpugnable guard to liberty.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

The earliest Christian view was that the dead in Christ await the resurrection when Christ comes again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

The season of Advent looks to the coming of Christ the king in glory. But that glory was first set down in an obscure earthly setting. Even so, the celebration of the child born of King David's line in the city of David prompts consideration of the final fulfillment of the promises to David, that of his house and lineage there would be no end.

I am a thing of beauty.

Un instante placentero y desbordante de vida gloriosa vale más que toda una existencia en las sombras.» Y

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I heard the merry grasshopper then sing, The black clad Cricket, bear a second part, They kept one tune, and played on the same string, Seeming to glory in their little Art. Shall Creatures abject, thus their voices raise? And in their kind resound their maker's praise: Whilst I as mute, can warble forth no higher lays?

Base World, I trample on thy face, Thy Glory I despise, No gain I find in ought below, For God hath made me wise.

Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

I was wrong though. The hike was longer than I had remembered, and I did manage to get lost. So I was wandering down there, imagining the glory of the awesome battle happening above, when my father infamously broke ranks and fled from the enemy. His own flight shot him down in retribution. By the time I got home, the battle had been won, my father was gone. And I'd been branded the daughter of a coward.

Death is the end of all men!" Dalinar bellowed. "What is the measure of him once he is gone? The wealth he accumulated and left for his heirs to squabble over? The glory he obtained, only to be passed on to those who slew him? The lofty positions he held through happenstance? "No. We fight here because we understand. The end is the same. It is the path that separates men. When we taste that end, we will do so with our heads held high, eyes to the sun.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." —2 Corinthians 3:16-18

The awesome love of our invisible God has become both visible and audible in Jesus Christ, the glory of the only Son filled with enduring love.

The mystery is Christ among you, your hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). Hope knows that if great trials are avoided, great deeds remain undone, and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted. Pessimism and defeatism are never the fruit of the life-giving Spirit but rather reveal our unawareness of present risenness.

I HAVE GIVEN THEM THE GLORY YOU GAVE TO ME, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE ONE. WITH ME IN THEM AND YOU IN ME, MAY THEY BE SO PERFECTED IN UNITY THAT THE WORLD WILL RECOGNIZE THAT IT WAS YOU WHO SENT ME AND THAT YOU HAVE LOVED THEM AS YOU HAVE LOVED ME. (JOHN 17:22–23 NJB)

The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.