Bernal Díaz del Castillo Quotes

Quauhtemoctzin was taken prisoner on St. Hippolytus' day, the 13th August, 1521, about the hour of vespers. Praise and glory be to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to his blessed mother, the Virgin Mary. Amen.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

• Glory
• Prisoner
• Lord Jesus Christ

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• Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • God
  • Glory
  • Willingness

• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Art
  • Glory
  • Bear

• The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Glory
  • Chief

• Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Glory

• Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Born
  • Glory
  • Creator

• Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • High

• . . . This is the high destiny of the sons of God, they who overcome, who are obedient to His commandments, who purify themselves even as He is pure. They are to become like Him; they will see Him as He is; they will behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • High
  • Son

• Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Giving
  • Sacrifice
  • Glory

• To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Great
  • Past
  • Honor

• Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Men
  • Might

• But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Christian
  • Christ

• All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Beauty
  • Glory
  • Exists

• The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Choose
  • Glory
  • Cattle

• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Power
  • Happiness

• There is no glory in the art of imitation. You cannot be someone else.

  

  Usha Uthup
  • Glory
  • Cannot
  • Art Of Imitation

• Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

  

  Euripides
  • Friend
  • Glory
  • Foe

• The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

  

  Socrates
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Glory

• Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Death
  • Independent
  • Prisoner

• If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Support
  • Companionship
  • Spiritual Paths

• Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Desert
  • Surface
  • Island

• There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Way
  • Kindness

• Quauhtemoctzin was taken prisoner on St. Hippolytus' day, the 13th August, 1521, about the hour of vespers. Praise and glory be to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to his blessed mother, the Virgin Mary. Amen.

  

  Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  • Glory
  • Prisoner
  • Lord Jesus Christ