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Quotes About Glory

The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men.
~ Bible
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Glory
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind." Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, "Or imagining that we do.
~ Jaq D. Hawkins
The glory of life is strength of existence.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.
~ Rachel Lewis
O God bid my poor body to ariseOn that bright day triumphant through the skies!
~ Timothy Salter
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
~ Molly Ivins
To get rich is glorious.
~ Deng Xiaoping
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
~ Thucydides
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~ Epictetus
The glory of age is a gorgeous soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
~ J. I. Packer
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
~ Billy Graham
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.
~ Matthew Heywood
The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory
~ Kallistos Ware
...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.
~ Kevin DeYoung
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
~ Imre Lakatos
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.
~ John Adams
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.
~ Will Ferguson
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
~ Will Rogers
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth.
~ Will Rogers