Quotes About Glory

But because we don't trust Jesus to do what He says He will do, or believe that He is who He says He is, or have not caught a glimpse of His infinite glory, we sit at drawing boards and draw up programs and methods and draft strategies that we hope might bring people to Christ. But Jesus could not have been clearer: the only begotten Son of God4 is the draw.

The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.

And though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story, For happy summer days gone by, And vanish'd summer glory-- It shall not touch with breath of bale, The pleasance of our fairy-tale.

Hymns were raised to the glory of the nation. The people were good and fine and strong and fair, hardworking and hopeful; also, vain and grasping, greedy and covetous, willfully ignorant and dangerously forgetful.

excitement of it. He'd been the golden boy

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.

The heavens shine on us, but God shines in us.

Jesus Followers are called to be reflectors of His character, servants of his grace, ambassadors of His message and magnifiers of His glory!" ~ © gfp '42

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

Winning is a great deodorant.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

Glory, glory, hallelujah! His soul is marching on!

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic.

The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God.

Do you remember what it says in The Book of the Law ? 'I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all.' Yes, I said slowly, and I thought it a bit daring; might tempt people to be foolhardy, don't you think? Of course, agreed Basil, if you read it carelessly.

O Godhead of glory and anguish! O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears! Thy sons on the universe languish In iron bands strong as the spheres; With virtue Thy likeness we cover, With priestcraft we mock at Thy power, And the meanest on earth is a lover, As vile as a flower.