Glorifying Quotes

#1. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not ... What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.

Oswald Chambers

#2. That's the ultimate pornography There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

Tom Clancy

#3. Ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.

Charles R. Swindoll

#4. Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

C.J. Mahaney

#5. Prayer serves a dual purpose; the blessing of man and the glory of God.

Billy Graham

#6. Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Mark Twain

#7. To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together. His glory and your gladness are not separate tracks moving in opposite directions. Rather His glory is in your gladness in Him.

Sam Storms

#8. Entering the house of God to dwell with God, beholding, glorifying and enjoying him eternally, I suggest, is the story of the Bible, the plot that makes sense of the various acts, persons and places of its pages, the deepest context for its doctrines.

L. Michael Morales

#9. The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring, and glorifying God. After all, generosity is fundamental to God's nature.

Craig Groeschel

#10. When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.

Luke Zeller

#11. I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you.

Sadat X

#12. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.

Mark Batterson

#13. The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.

Paul Park

#15. One of the joys of heaven ... will be discovering the hidden ways that God in His sovereignty acted in our lives on earth to protect and guide us [that we might] bring glory to His name, in spite of our frailty.

Billy Graham

#16. In letting God sit in judgment they judge themselves; in glorifying God they glorify themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus.

Tim Salmon

#18. It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.

Mark Batterson

#19. I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.

Maya Goded

#20. To love God with our hearts and our minds, let's resolve to glorify God by not being women who fool others or who are easily fooled ourselves. Avoiding a bad thought day depends on it.

Patty Houser

#21. Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

Greg LeMond

#22. Most religious scriptures are all about three apparently glorifying elements, -man, man and man.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

Matthew Henry

#24. I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

Edward Ruscha

#25. We glorify God when we celebrate people

Sunday Adelaja

#26. From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#27. The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

John Piper

#28. When one bears suffering faithfully, God is glorified and honored.

Billy Graham

#29. I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

ASAP Rocky

#30. God doesn't mock us. He never gives us a goal that we cannot accomplish in His strength. I want to assure you, you can glorify God, you MUST glorify God. But you have to determine deep within your heart that you're going to do it His way.

Charles R. Swindoll

#31. Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

Bo Derek

#32. The glory of His Father which our Lord sought above all else on earth is still the object of all His desires in the Blessed Sacrament. It is safe to say that Jesus Christ has clothed Himself with the sacramental state in order to continue honoring and glorifying His Father.

Peter Julian Eymard

#33. I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

Geraldine Brooks

#34. Everything we do should glorify God!

Billy Graham

#35. An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.

Edith Hamilton

#36. The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!

Keith Green

#37. People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

Thomas Szasz

#38. David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist's eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture.

Susan Minot

#39. The process of time brings our transformation to fruition. Free yourself to live through the processes God puts you through because at the appointed time He will cause you to bear much fruit - all for purpose of glorifying Him in the world.

LaShawnda Jones

#40. When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.

Criss Jami

#41. Christmas is our annual reminder to look up - pondering celestial stars, to look out - serving those in need, and to look down - glorifying our Lord in humble prayer.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#42. Why do you do what you do? Why do you dress the way you dress?Why do you do what you do with your time? Why do you watch what you watch on TV or at the movies or on the computer? Do you have God-glorifying reasons for all of it?

Tim Conway

#43. Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Abdolkarim Soroush

#44. There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

Tavi Gevinson

#45. And within the computer's innards, a spreading cancer. A self-replicating corruption. A B-pop mutiny of bass and drum and oscillating frequency. Inane quasi poetry glorifying a pointless act of intimacy.

Jay Kristoff

#46. One of the bonuses of being a Christian is the glorious hope that extends out beyond the grave into the glory of God's tomorrow.

Billy Graham

#47. The content of worship comes from the Bible, the goal of worship is to give praise to God, and the basis for worship is the saving work of Jesus Christ. Put more simply, true Christian worship is Word-communicat ing, God-glorifying, and Christ-confessi ng.

Philip Graham Ryken

#48. Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight or my satisfaction. It is about my pleasure, delight, and satisfaction in God. Worship is not simply about glorifying God. It is about glorifying God by enjoying Him forever.

Sam Storms

#49. The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends

Anne Stuart

#50. So let me get this straight - we ban guns, but encourage movies glorifying guns?

Greg Gutfeld

#51. It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

Saint Augustine

#52. When people seek to fulfill their callings by glorifying God in their work, praising Him for their gifts and abilities, and seeing both their efforts and its products as an offering to Him, then work is an act of worship to God.

Steve Corbett

#53. Glee is more then just a show now. It's become a wonderful culture celebrating the underdog and glorifying individuality.

Darren Criss

#54. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God.

Oswald Chambers

#55. Knowing God supersedes everything else because it is the supreme cause. Everything else - being, doing, loving, believing, hoping, praising, worshipping, evangelizing, glorifying, enjoying - is an effect.

Larry Alan Thompson

#56. Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

Franklin Foer

#57. This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and glorifying Christ.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#58. Redemption, salvation, and restoration are not God's ultimate goal. These He performs for the sake of something greater: namely, the enjoyment He has in glorifying Himself.

John Piper

#59. A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#60. Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.

Isaiah Washington

#61. Must there always be "wars and rumors of war"? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another.

Ron Paul

#62. I cannot at the same time accept the glory and give God the glory ... Glorifying God means being occupied with and committed to His ways rather than preoccupied with and determined my own way. It is being so thrilled with Him, so devoted to Him, so committed to Him that we cannot get enough of Him!

Charles R. Swindoll

#63. It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

Oswald Chambers

#64. It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

Daisy Berkowitz

#65. Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

Criss Jami

#66. If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

Charles R. Swindoll

#67. Find a woman who cares about nothing but loving, serving, honoring, and glorifying Jesus Christ, and you will see who truly is the 'fairest of them all.'

Leslie Ludy

#68. Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

Charles Spurgeon

#69. We glorify Christ when we live for God - trusting, loving, and obeying Him.

Billy Graham

#70. God's great love in Christ - Christians are compelled to willing, joyful, urgent, faith-driven, grace-saturated, God-glorifying work on behalf of the poor.

David Platt

#71. We glorify God by living lives that honor Him.

Billy Graham

#72. I don't believe there is one great thing I was made to do in this world. I believe there is one great God I was made to glorify. And there will be many ways, even a million little ways, I will declare his glory with my life.

Emily P. Freeman

#73. We were created for Him. Each of us was given unique talents and interests and abilities, all for the purpose of glorifying God.

Diane Moody

#74. Our voices, our service, and our abilities are to be employed, primarily, for the glory of God.

Billy Graham

#75. 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?

Jonathan Edwards

#76. Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

Charles Spurgeon

#77. Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth.

Kurt Warner

#78. What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence ... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

Marian Wright Edelman

#79. What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.

Billy Graham

#80. I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.

Diane Ackerman

#81. The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God ... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

Jerry Bridges

#82. Do you ever worry you're being a teenager wrong?" I thought of the last three years. "I KNOW I'm being one wrong." "I mean, what's wrong with finding songs glorifying domestic violence offensive? What's wrong with finding live music too loud? What's wrong with a nice cup of tea and a chat?

Holly Bourne

#83. The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

Lev Manovich

#84. My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Luke Ford

#85. So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God (1 Cor 10:31). Eating and drinking are fairly common aspects of daily life, and yet even ordinary meals become significant when they draw our attention once again to glorifying and enjoying the God who provides them.

Michael S. Horton