Quotes About Glory

don't you ever be forgettin' that this gift you have is for the glory of the Giver, not for the one gifted.

Have fun, she wanted to say, but it might sound dismissive, so she said nothing. He took her silence as a sign of her disappointment to being deprived the glory of his presence. "Don't worry," he said. "I won't be late. Why don't you put on a little sumpin' sumpin' and surprise me.

He understood how life was an undeserved bounty, how even the most virtuous were not worthy of the glories of the mortal plane. For him the mystery was solved, because he understood that everything in life is love, even pain, especially pain.

They applauded when I had finished speaking, and I admit that I took pleasure from that. Forgive me for my pride, Lord. Help me to remember that all the work I do—whether it is excavating bones in the desert or giving lectures to the public—is not for my own glory, but for yours. Let me never forget that my task is to show others the beauty of your works and in doing so bring them closer to you. Amen.

Perhaps I'm merely envious of the Church's ability to raise money; forgive me for that, Lord. They are trying to celebrate your glory, Lord, just as we in the scientific community are, so I cannot disagree with them too strenuously. Our commonalities are more important than our differences.

It's a great feeling to be champion of Spain.

Spare a thought for people like me who sweated it out for our moment of glory and the joy we brought for the country. I had earned my records the hard way.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.

It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

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

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.