Glory Quotes
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I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding place I ask no other sunshine than The sunshine of His face Content to let the world go by To know no gain nor loss My sinful self my only shame My glory all the cross.
Bob Sorge
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
Sallust
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We were making history, breaking rules and breaking free; questioning the writing on the wall; coming from the underground; laughing as we’re falling down; soaking in the glory of it all!
Beatrice Miller
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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest Hemingway
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The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.
Charlie Peacock
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If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.
Che Ahn
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It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
Euripides
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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
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God creates, not that there may be witnesses to render Him His due glory, but beings who shall rejoice in it as He rejoices in it Himself and who, participating in His being, participate at the same time in His beatitude. It is not therefore for Himself, but for us, that God seeks His glory; it is not to gain it, for He posses it already, nor to increase it, for already it is perfect, but to communicate it to us.
Etienne Gilson
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.
Geerhardus Vos
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The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.
Erich Maria Remarque
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
John Milton
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The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some sparks of the genius of masters, and in addition some rays of the glory that is the masters.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
Francis Chan
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I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
Plato
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
Victor Hugo
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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail Lermontov
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Ain't no glory made from being dependable.
Esi Edugyan
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I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.
George Washington
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Her own hair was a glory of copper fire that morning, shining like a whisky still, long and loose in gentle flames down her back.
Elizabeth Wein