Glory Quotes
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If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him Joseph Smith; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him.
George Q. Cannon
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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
Sallust
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Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.
Arthur Wallis
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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
Jerry Bridges
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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.
Charles Dickens
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Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.
Chuck Bednarik
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
Moliere
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It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.
Edward Jenks
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It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.
Seamus Heaney
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The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.
Jerry Bridges
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Andrew Young
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
William Wordsworth
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That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.
Jerry Bridges
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He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.
Lao Tzu
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Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.
Euzhan Palcy
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It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
Francis Chan
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Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
Michelangelo
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Glory is the child of peril.
Tobias Smollett
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Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
William Shenstone
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
Eugene Delacroix
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
Moliere