Top 100 Glory Of Quotes
#1. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.
Alex Ebert
#3. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Stephen King
#4. Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!
Gabriele D'Annunzio
#5. There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
Fanny Fern
#6. Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#7. Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
Alfred Adler
#8. It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.
Anna Quindlen
#9. Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
Paul Simon
#10. If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.
Tony Dungy
#11. So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.
Rihanna
#12. The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
Jeff Miller
#14. Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!
Thomas A Kempis
#15. She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
George Meredith
#16. I would guess that he thought and thought for at least ten years before he came up with a stupendous idea, that glory of man's inventiveness, pants.
Soseki Natsume
#17. The Grave is no bar to my call."
"Let whosoever sounds me think not of glory, but only of salvation.
Robert Jordan
#18. There is greatness in everyone.
Look within yourself and discover your greatness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.
Barack Obama
#20. The sun of God's glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our soul. And when it does, all the planets of our life are held in their proper orbit.
John Piper
#21. PSA3.3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Anonymous
#22. Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.
Sharon Jaynes
#23. Jesus evidently thought that human beings still retained a residue of their former glory.
John R.W. Stott
#24. When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk)
And now? (Taryn)
Now I would much rather coax a smile from your face. (Sparhawk)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth.
You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#26. He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
Michel De Montaigne
#28. God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory.
Mark Batterson
#29. The hallowing of God's Name is the END toward which His Kingdom coming and the accomplishment of His will are among the MEANS.
Thomas Manton
#30. Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#31. The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
Solomon
#32. I don't know what my favorite film of mine is ... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.
Morgan Freeman
#33. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't.
Ayn Rand
#34. This plan looks like foolishness to earthbound philosophers. How can man comprehend a plan so based on love and servitude that his own deliverance and restoration is achieved by the death of the very "Lord of glory" (2:8)?
Albert H. Baylis
#35. The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
Robert Kennedy
#37. Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance.
Aleister Crowley
#38. He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
John Calvin
#39. This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#40. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins
#41. But suffering does not automatically bring glory to God and blessing to God's people. Some believers have fainted and fallen in times of trial and have brought shame to the name of Christ. It is only when we depend on the grace of God that we can glorify God in times of suffering.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#42. Hollywood can be a draining industry. For all the glitz and glory and wonderful parts of our business, it takes it's toll on your inner self.
Amber Heard
#43. If God were to eradicate all evil from this planet, He would have to eradicate all evil men. Who would be exempt? "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23 NIV].
God would rather transform the evil man than eradicate him.
Billy Graham
#45. I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.
Steve-O
#46. Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.
Charles Kingsley
#47. T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
Adam Nicolson
#48. But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
Richard P. Feynman
#49. Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
Francois Fenelon
#50. Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
John Hancock
#51. There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario Cuomo
#52. Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.
Henri Murger
#53. The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.
Jack Heffron
#54. Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.
Charles Spurgeon
#55. Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.
William Holden
#56. You were placed there by God for a reason, which is to possess the land for the glory of the KING!
Sunday Adelaja
#57. We no longer view the world through the dim mist of justice and reward, but through the bright lens of resurrection, where suffering leads to glory and slaughtered lambs rule the earth.
Preston Sprinkle
#58. He knows not where he's going,
For the ocean will decide,
Its not the destination,
It's the glory of the ride
Edward Monkton
#59. The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. G All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 h but the word of the Lord remains forever.
Anonymous
#61. The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
John Calvin
#62. When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#63. Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
John Bunyan
#64. No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.
Robert Plant
#65. A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#66. Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!
Paris Reidhead
#67. And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.
A.B. Paterson
#68. Go out and walk. That is the glory of life,
Maira Kalman
#69. One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.
Clarence John Laughlin
#70. To live coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
R.C. Sproul
#71. I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.
Nnedi Okorafor
#72. Blake's song isn't really a song for England alone," said Dym. "It's a song for every land. We're all building the unseen Jerusalem together. But the powers of darkness don't want to see a time when the earth shall be filled with the glory of the God as the waters cover the sea.
Constance Savery
#73. The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
Leonard Ravenhill
#74. If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
George Bernard Shaw
#75. The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
Alfred Bunn
#76. One day, with the help of science, death will come to Death as well! Killer will be killed and we will shout: Soli Scientia Gloria! Glory to Science alone!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
J.I. Packer
#78. We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
John Owen
#79. I can awaken things inside you that have been sleeping all your life. You're strong enough to live in the dark, to glory in it. You can become a queen of the shadows. Why not take that power, Elena? Let me help you take it.
L.J.Smith
#80. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.
J.R. Ortiz
#81. A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,
Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.
E.E. Knight
#82. To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#83. The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'
David Platt
#84. Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
Karen DeCrow
#85. Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
G.K. Chesterton
#86. What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft ... a kind of breaking through to glory.
John Steinbeck
#87. I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure
even when the velvety victim is locked up in one's dungeon
that some rival devil or influential god may still not abolish one's prepared triumph.
Vladimir Nabokov
#88. This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.
Brigham Young
#89. We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?"
"Perfect timing.
J.D. Robb
#90. It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.
Madeleine L'Engle
#91. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
Fanny Crosby
#92. Man to God: "I've let you down so many times."
God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I uphold you with My righteous right hand. That's how it works in this relationship. I - hold - you - up.
The Skit Guys
#93. I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
Sherwood Anderson
#94. Oh that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory.
David Brainerd
#95. The world conspires against our souls by blinding us to the depth and glory of their God-given design and tempting us to be satisfied with immediate gratification.
John Ortberg
#96. If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.
Jonathan Edwards
#97. All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#98. 26And then they will see w the Son of Man coming in clouds x with great power and glory. 27And then y he will send out the angels and z gather a his elect from b the four winds, from c the ends of the earth d to the ends of heaven.
Anonymous
#99. The earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord
Sunday Adelaja
#100. There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.
L. Ron Hubbard