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Quotes About Glory

Use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God.
~ Rick Warren
The soul of her youth clamored for its rights; for a share in the world's glory and exultation.
~ Kate Chopin
Honors ennoble those on whom they're bestowed, but they also ease the guilt of those whose commands made them necessary in the first place. A medal is a mirror, reflecting a glory that we force ourselves to believe in.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Grace knocks us flat, preventing any form of self-congratulation. All the good we achieve is to be attributed to God rather than to ourselves. What makes our lives good is not anything we are ourselves but the presence within us of what we are not, a divine presence never ours by right because never ours by nature. All the glory for the good we exhibit in our lives should therefore be reserved for God.
~ Kathryn Tanner
Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.
~ Keats John
I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it's sharp as a nun on her second sherry.
~ Ken Bruen
His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
~ Ken Follett
Time's glory is to calm contending kings To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light To stamp the seal of time in aged things To wake the morn and sentinel the night To wrong the wronger till he render right To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours And smear with dust their glittering golden towers
~ Ken Follett
God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.
~ David Platt
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.
~ Aeschylus
In Christ alone I place my trust And find my glory In the power of the Cross.
~ Michael English
We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
~ Juvenal
Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
~ Franz Grillparzer
It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
~ Hermann Hesse
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
~ Madeleine L'Engle
By her shining and her power he knew her.
~ Mary Renault
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
~ Pierre Corneille
Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory. They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.
~ Nikki Rowe
When it seems there is no way out, it indicates that God wants to manifest His power and glory
~ Sunday Adelaja
His countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow.
~ Bible
When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.
~ Louis de Montfort