Quotes About Glory

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.

There is no greater glory than to die for love.

Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of goodwill.

This need for recognition and glory must have its roots in human loneliness.

The notion of a people chosen by God wasn't intended to bestow privilege but responsibility. Jewish history attests that this role carries more burden than glory. The classical way Jews understood their own history was as the story of a people failing to live in the intensity of God's presence. This is the story told by the Hebrew Bible -- a national epic astonishing in its relentless criticism of the people it is supposedly intended to celebrate.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory and may even be permitted to come into the presence of the Father and the Son; but they cannot reign as kings in glory, because they had blessing offered unto them, and they refused to accept them.

When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fires the greatest smoke.

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

We rise in glory, as we sink in pride: Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.