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Quotes About Glory

Yes, I do. Yes, I do. It is easy out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there. And do you know, those old gentlemen who were sliding gently down to death are too interested to die now?
~ John Steinbeck
SOMETIMES A KIND OF GLORY lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the
~ John Steinbeck
You're getting well," Samuel said. "Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.
~ John Steinbeck
Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.
~ Jim George
In another land there is gloryIn another land there is happinessIn another land we all get alongIn another land we will stand with others
~ April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
~ Marcelene Cox
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
~ Lillian Hellman
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
~ Phil Donahue
A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life's cruel trick.
~ Natalia Jaster, Trick
Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.
~ Edward T Welch
The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty
~ Jurgen Moltmann
All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.
~ Mother Teresa
I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
~ Al Gore
For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
~ Sophocles
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
~ William Butler Yeats
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
~ Edward Young
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
~ Phyllis Bottome
Say it: I am determined to live a happy life no matter my challenges! I will turn all my tales of fury into tales of glory! I will turn all of my tales of woe into tales of WOW!
~ Unknown
One who wins without troubles gets VICTORY. But one who wins with lots of troubles gets GLORY.
~ Unknown
Reach for the stars, you just might become one.
~ Paula Abdul
Who kept the faith, fought the fight and gave their life; the glory theirs, the duty ours!
~ Unknown
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
~ Aristotle