Quotes About Glory

We want God to show us the "practical" things. Who should I marry? What career should I pursue? We want guidance, but Jesus wants to give us himself. Jesus is the light of the world: he is the answer. He wants to show his glory in our lives.

autêntica humildade -- um coração mais interessado na glória de Deus do que na nossa, e mais aplicado a servir aos outros do que a nós mesmos. Esta é, de fato, a postura da humildade para a qual Deus olha.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That's the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive. No wonder God opposes pride. No wonder He hates pride. Let that truth sink into your thinking.

Every step I took could lead me to glory or tragedy; every choice I made had a consequence. My fate was in my hands.

Vote for me, Adolf Hitler, and I'll restore Germany to its rightful glory.

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams,Carl Jung

which, is a great thing—mostly. "Ah, fame,

Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.

El autor muestra ahora que la humillación de Cristo era necesaria para su glorificación. Nosotros le vemos coronado de gloria y honor, a causa de sus sufrimientos y muerte.

I'm king of the World, bitches. Come in here and bask in my glory.(Strider)

And at one point (cough) walking into a chicks knife (cough), he'd finally won. 'I'm king of the world, bitches. Come in here and bask in my glory.' His voice echoed through the foyer, expectant eager. -Strider

The Church does not depend on power, social prestige, rhetorical manipulation, or human-designed programs. All it has are the Word and Sacraments, which, though they seem weak to the world and to all theologies of glory, in fact carry the life-changing power of the Holy Spirit.

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

By God! in erthe I was his purgatorie,For which I hope his Soule be in glorie.

Myn be the travaille, and thyn be the glorie!

A la gloria de los más famosos se adscribe siempre algo de la miopía de los admiradores.

If we will follow the advice and counsel that the Lord has given, our pathway will be one of happiness. It will be a pathway, perhaps not of ease and comfort always, but in the end it will terminate in the presence of our Heavenly Father, and glory, immortality and eternal lives will be our portion.

By common consent grey hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

I will cling to the old rugged cross,And exchange it some day for a crown.

They even took a pride in a sick headache, and liked it, if it were the result of a debauch on the previous night; and were as pompously mock-modest about a black eye, got in a squabble at the Argyll Rooms, as if it had been the Victoria Cross. To pass the night in a police cell was such glory that it was worth while pretending they had done so when it was untrue.

The result, in Mark's Gospel, is a balanced account of Jesus' mission that in its turn forms the basis for a realistic assessment of what it means to be Jesus' disciple. It is a theology in which rejection and triumph, humiliation and glory, meet in the new scale of values of the Kingdom of God.

The eschatological glory is inseparably related to the sufferings of Christ (1:11).