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Quotes About Glorify

WHO SHALL not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy" (Rev 15:4). He
~ Arthur W. Pink
While me must recognize the existence and importance of pain, we must not glorify it. Where pain exists, there must be a reason for it.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.
~ Roma Downey
Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.
~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.
~ Michel Gondry
It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.
~ Marilynne Robinson
You were created by God, are on the earth to image and glorify God, and when you die, if you are in Christ, you will be with God forever, imaging and glorifying him perfectly in a sinless state.
~ Mark Driscoll
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
~ John Piper
Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires. Our chief end is to glorify God, the great Object. We do so most fully when we treasure him, desire him, delight in him so supremely that we let goods and kindred go and display his love to the poor and the lost.
~ John Piper
Thinking that our work will glorify God when people do not know we are Christians is like admiring an effective ad on TV that never mentions the product. People may be impressed but won't know what to buy.
~ John Piper
What is the chief aim of man? Man's chief aim is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
~ John Piper
El fin principal del hombre es glorificar a Dios y gozar de Él para siempre".2 Gozar de Dios es la manera de glorificar a Dios porque Dios se glorifica más en nosotros cuando nosotros estamos más satisfechos en Él.
~ John Piper
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. And? Like ham and eggs? Sometimes you glorify God and sometimes you enjoy Him? Sometimes He gets glory, sometimes you get joy?
~ John Piper
God responds to prayer because when we look away from ourselves to Christ as our only hope, that gives the Father an occasion to magnify the glory of his grace in the all-providing work of his Son. Similarly, fasting is peculiarly suited to glorify God in this way. It is fundamentally an offering of emptiness to God in hope.
~ John Piper
The great old catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" and answers, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." 2 Enjoying God is the way to glorify God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
~ John Piper
God created me-and you-to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
~ John Piper
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?"32 "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."33
~ John Piper
The fruit of love is worked in us through the Spirit 'by hearing with faith.' The Spirit will not bear his fruit in us apart from our faith. Why is this?..The answer seems to be that the Holy Spirit loves to glorify the all-satisfying dependability of Christ and his Word. If the Holy Spirt simply caused acts of love in the human heart without any clear, ongoing causal connection with faith in Christ's promises, then it would not be plain that Christ is honored through love.
~ John Piper
I paraphrased Edwards with the words, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." Here my paraphrase is: "The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying him forever." This is the essence of what I call "Christian hedonism.
~ John Piper
Let your light shine before others, sothat they may see your good works." So the motive at stake is not simply whether you want your acts to be known by others, but why you want them to be known—that God be glorified, or that you be admired.
~ John Piper
But if you want to glorify the worth of a spring you do it by getting down on your hands and knees and drinking to your heart's satisfaction
~ John Piper
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
~ John Piper
To keep the body in a healthy condition, in order that all parts of the living machinery may act harmoniously, should be a study of our life. The children of God cannot glorify Him with sickly bodies or dwarfed minds.
~ Ellen G. White
Let it be the one business of my life to glorify Thee by every word of my tongue, by every work of my hand, by professing Thy truth, and by engaging all men, so far as in me lies, to glorify and love Thee.
~ Barbara Hughes