Glory Quotes
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Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
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We were created to be like the moon. We don't have light of our own; we merely reflect God's glory.
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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.
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I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.
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To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
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Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.
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Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
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The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.
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Glory and gore go hand in hand.
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I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
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Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
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We believe the church’s purpose is to glorify God, not to make people happy. The church does not exist for believers or unbelievers; it exists for God’s glory, for the equipping of believers, and the church is God’s missionary in the world.
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Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
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Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.
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Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do.... No guts no glory.
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I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.
