Quotes About Glory

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.

The splendor of God's work is the beauty of stars.

There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

A careless risk undertaken thoughtlessly or in pursuit of a thrill is recklessness, but a hazard confronted for the glory of God is a different matter altogether.

You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.